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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	good_a	sin_n	work_n	24,322	5	6.1690	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32991	A copy of the proceedings of some worthy and learned divines appointed by the Lords to meet at the Bishop of Lincolns in Westminster touching innovations in the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England : together with considerations upon the Common prayer booke / Arch Bishop of Armach, Bish. of Lincolne, Doct. Prideaux, Doct. Ward, Doct. Brownrig, Doct. Feately, Doct. Hacket.	Church of England.	1641 (1641)	Wing C4103A; ESTC R39214	4,436	10

A COPY OF The Proceedings of some worthy and learned Divines appointed by the Lords to meet at the Bishop of LINCOLNS in WESTMINSTER Touching Innovations in the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England Together with considerations upon the Common Prayer booke Arch Bishop of Armach Bish of Lincolne Doct. Prideaux Doct. Ward Doct. Brownrig Doct. Feately Doct. Hacket Printed at London 1641. Innouations in Doctrine 1. QVaere Whether in the twentieth article these words are not inserted Habet Ecclesia authoritatem in controversiis fidei 2. It appeares by Stetfords and the approbation of the Licencers that some do teach and preach that good works are concauses with faith in the act of Justification Doctor Dove also hath given scandall in that point 3. Some have preached that works of penance are satisfactory before God 4. Some have preached that private Confession by particular enumeration of sins is necessary to salvation necessitate medii both those errours have beene questioned at the Consistory at Cambridge 5. Some have maintained that the absolution which the Priest pronounceth is more then Declaratory 6. Some have published that there is a proper Sacrifice in the Lords Supper to exhibit Christs death in the Postfact as there was a sacrifice to prefigure in the old Law in the Antefact and therefore that we have a true Altar and therfore not only metaphorically so called so Doctor Heylin and others in the last Summers Convocation where also some defended that the Oblation of the Elements might hold the nature of the true sacrifice others the consumption of the Elements 7. Some have introduced prayer for the dead as M. Browne in his printed sermon some have coloured the use of it with questions in Cambridge and disputed that preces pro defunctis non supponunt purgatorium 8. Divers have oppugned certitude of salvation 9. Some have maintained the lawfulnesse of monasticall vowes 10. Some have maintained that the Lords day is kept meerely by ecclesiasticall constitution and that the day is changeable 11. Some have taught as new and dangerous Doctrine that the subjects are to pay any sums of money imposed upon them though without law nay contrary to the lawes of the Realme as D. Sybthorp and D. Manwaring Bishop of S. Davids in their printed sermons whom many have followed of late yeeres 12. Some have put scorns upon the two books of Homilies calling them either popular discourses or a doctrine usefull for those times wherein they were set forth 13. Some have defended the whole grosse substance of Arminianisme that Electio est ex fide praevisâ That the act of conversion depends upon the concurrence of mans free will That the justified man may fall finally and totally from grace Some have defended universall grace as imparted as much to Reprobates as to the Elect and have proceeded usque ad salutem Ethnicorum which the Church of England bath anathamatized 15. Some have absolutely denyed originall sin and so evacuated the Crosse of Christ as in a disputation at Oxer 16. Some have given excessive cause of scandall to the Church as being suspected of Socinianisme 17. Some have defended that concupiscence is no sin either in the habit or first motion 18. Some have broacht out of Socinus a most uncomfortable and desperate doctrine that late repentance that is upon the last bed of sicknesse is unfruitfull at least to reconcile the penitent to God Adde unto these some dangerous and most reproveable Bookes 1. THe reconciliation of Sancta Clara to knit the Romish and Protestant in one Memorandum that he be caused to produce Bish Watsons book of the like reconciliation which he speaks of 2. A booke called Brevis Disquisitio printed as it is thought in London and vulgarly to be had which impugneth the doctrine of the holy Trinity and the verity of Christs body which he tooke of the blessed virgin in Heaven and the verity of our resurrection 3. A book called Timotheus philalethes de pace Ecclesia which holds that every religion will save a man if he hold the Covenant Innovations in discipline 1. THe turning of the holy Table Altarwise and most commonly calling it an Altar 2. Bowing towards it or towards the East many times with three congees but unusuall in every motion accesse or recesse in the Church 3. Advancing Candlestickes in many Churches upon the Altar so called 4. In making Canopies over the Altar so called with traverses and curtaines on each side and before it 5. In compelling all Communicants to come up before the railes and there to receive 6. In advancing Crucifices and Images upon the parafront or Altar-cloth so called 7. In reading some part of Morning prayer at the holy Table when there is no Communion celebrated 8. By the Ministers turning his backe to the West and his face to the East when he pronounceth the Creed or reads Prayers 9. By reading the Letany in the midst of the body of the Church in many Parochiall Churches 10. By pretending for their Innovations the injunctions and advertisements of Queen Elizabeth which are not in force but by way of commentary and imposition and by putting to the Liturgy printed secundo tertio Edwardi sexti which the Parliament hath reformed and layd aside 11. By offering of Bread and Wine by the hand of the Church-wardens of others before the consecration of the Elements 12. By having a Credentia or side-table besides the Lords Table for divers uses in the Lords Supper 13. By introducing an Offertory before the Communion distant from the giving of Almes to the poore 14. By prohibiting the Ministers to expound the Catechisme at large to their Parishioners 15. By suppressing the Lectures partly on Sundaies in the afternoon partly on week daies performed as well by combination as some one man 16. By proibiting a direct prayer before Sermon and bidding of prayer 17. By singing the Te Deum in prose after a Cathedrall Church way in divers Parochiall Churches where the people have no skill in such Musique 18. By introducing Latine Service in the Communion of late in Oxford and into some Colledges in Cambridge at Morning and Evening prayer so that some yong Students and the servants of the Colledge do not understand their prayers 19. By standing up at the Hymbes of the Church and alwaies at Gloria Patri 20. By carrying children from the baptisme to the Altar so called there to offer them up to God 21. By taking downe Galleries in Churches or restraining the building of such Galleries where the Parishes are very populous Memorandum 1. THat in all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches two Sermons be preached every Sunday by the Deane and Prebendaries or by their procurement and likewise every Holiday and one Lecture at the least to be preached on working daies every weeke all the yeere long 2. That the Musique used in Gods holy Service in Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches be framed with lesse curiosity that it may be more edifying and more