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A91267	A seasonable vindication of free-admission, and frequent administration of the Holy Communion to all visible church-members, regenerate or unregenerate. From the institution, precept, president of Christ himself; the doctrine, practice of the primitive Church, fathers, councils, Christians: the confessions, articles, records, chief writers of our own and other reformed churches: the dangerous consequents, effects, schisms arising from the disusage, infrequency, monopoly of this sacrament, to visible or real saints alone; and suspension of all others from it, till approved worthy upon trial. And that upon meer Anabaptistical, and papistical false principles, practices, (here discovered) unadvisedly embraced, imitated, asserted, exceeded by sundry over-rigid, reforming ministers; to our Saviours dishonour, our Churches great disturbance, their own, their peoples prejudice; and the common enemies, and seducers grand advantage. / By Will: Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne·	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4070; Thomason E495_3; ESTC R203285	81,072	108

A SEASONABLE VINDICATION Of Free-Admission and Frequent Administration of the HOLY COMMVNION To all Visible Church-members Regenerate or Vnregenerate From the Institution Precept President of Christ himself the Doctrine Practice of the Primitive Church Fathers Councils Christians the Confessions Articles Records Chief Writers of our own and other reformed Churches the dangerous Consequents Effects Schisms arising from the Disusage Infrequency Monopoly of this Sacrament to visible or real Saints alone and Suspension of all others from it till approved Worthy upon trial And that upon meer Anabaptistical and Papistical false Principles Practices here discovered unadvisedly embraced imitated asserted exceeded by sundry over-rigid reforming Ministers to our Saviours dishonour our Churches great disturbance their own their peoples prejudice and the Common Enemies and Seducers grand Advantage By Will Prynne of Swainswick Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne 1 Cor. 10. 2 3. 16 17. And did ALL eat the same spiritual meat and did ALL drink the same spiritual drink c. The Cup of blessing which we blesse is it not THE COMMUNION of the Bloud of Christ The Bread which we break is it not THE COMMUNION of the Body of Christ For we being many are one Bread for WE ARE ALL PARTAKERS OF THAT ONE BREAD Aug. Ep●st 179. Non bonum est homini hominem vincere sed bonum est homini ut eum Veritas vincat volentem quia malum est homini ut eum Veritas vincat invitum Nam ipsa vincat necesse est sive Negantem sive Confitentem LONDON Printed by F. Leach for the Author 1656. To the over-sadly divided misguided Ministers of the miserably distracted undermined almost ruined Church of England especially such who in Theory or Practice have swerved from their Duties in casting off the Frequent Administration of the Holy Communion with their peoples Free-Admission thereunto and in other particulars of moment here briefly touched DEar reverend Christian Brethren whom I cordially honour for your a high and heavenly Calling give me leave with that Christian Liberty which becomes me without any fear or flattery to inform you that I have for many years by-past with a bleeding soul and mournfull spirit taken special Notice of some offensive Deviations from and Negligences in your Ministerial Function whereof many of you are guilty which have given great Advantages to your Common Romish and Sectarian Adversaries and just scandal to divers of your best-affected Friends some whereof I formerly endeavoured by seasonable timely b Publications to crush in the very shell and now deem high time to remind you of being grown Epidemical yea almost destructive to your very Ministry as well as perillous to our Church and Religion Not to inlarge upon your own manifold intestine c sad Divisions between and against your selves which have separated you into several Opposite Squadrons that I say not Factions and Battalioes of Presbyterians Episcopalists or Royalists Independents Interdependents openly secretly warring against and seeking to supplant each other by the extravagant power proceedings of illegal Arbitrary Committees and new coyned Orders Ordinances Covenants Engagements with other Machiavilian Devices whereby you have endeavoured to eject sequester suppresse vex ensnare ruine one another under our successive late publike Revolutions of Government By which you have now at last made your selves meer Tenants at will both in respect of your Benefices Tithes Ministry to every New upstart power a derision to your Popish a prey to your Anabaptistical and other Sectarian Adversaries who infinitely increase their Numbers Proselytes by these your unbrotherly feudes and have no special Committees to restrain eject suppresse them but are crept into most Committees and places of power to vex molest discountenance persecute eject sequester many of you at their pleasures and secretly encourage countenance abet our last insolent spreading Romish Sect of Quakers to disturb affront revile your persons Doctrine Ministry both in the Church Streets and all other places and to publish their most rayling scurrillous Invectives against you to accomplish your speedy extirpation by these Instruments of the Pope and Devil which they dare not immediately attempt by themselves In which prosecuted design of your utter speedy extirpation all Anabaptists Sectaries concurre and unite their forces with the Jesuites and Popish party as Iohn Canne demonstrates in his Second voice from the Temple p. 2. where he excites The Supreme Authority of the Nation the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England to whom he dedicates it utterly to extirpate the National Church Ministry Worship Government of England and to starve famish all the Ministers thereof whom he stiles Antichristian Idols by taking away the food and maintenance whereby hitherto and at this present they are ●ourished fed and kept alive In regard of which joynt desperate Co●federacy against you by these your combined common Adversaries I shall now exhort and advise you First of all To lay aside and abandon all private animosities factions feuds contests and persecutions against each other as not only unbeseeming the d Embassadors Ministers of the God Prince Gospel of Peace but as the most probable unavoidable means of your own speedy destruction as these two Gospel Texts will assure you Mat. 12. 25 26. And Iesus said unto them Every kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and every City or House divided against it self shall not stand And if Satan cast out Satan or one Min●ster another of a contrary party he is divided against himself how shall then his kingdom or Christs where his Ministers are thus divided and cast out one another stand And Gal. 5. 15. But if ye bite and devour one another take heed that you be not consumed one of another Among all the evils that afflict the body politick of the Church or State there is none so pernicious as division especially amongst the Ministers and chief Officers thereof e because it strikes at the very foundation of their being and poisons the original of their life and strength Wherefore I beseech you most especially to avoid detest this destructive sin 2ly Seeing all Ministers and Christians are specially obliged by the f command and will of their Master and by their own welfare safety salvation to continue inseparably united one to another and all together to make up but one harmonious Body I shall exhort beseech advise you all to g live and love like Brethren h To be all of one mind and of one Spirit striving together for the faith of the Gospel i To keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace k To manifest to all the world that you are Christs disciples by loving one another And to pursue this pathetical exhortation of the Apostle to cease the Contentions between the Minister and people in the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 1. 10. Now I beseech you Brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that

5ly I desire such Ministers who have preached printed cryed up this false rule of admission to and administration of this Sacrament sadly to consider the retaliating justice of God upon them arising from this their error and neglect of administring it That whiles they have peremptorily debarred their Parishioners and people from the Lords Supper and laid it quite aside as denying or doubting their real Sain●ship many of their people have upon their own principles turned Anabaptists Independents Quakers Seekers yea publikely in their Churches Pulpits c Writings proclaimed them to be no real Saints or Ministers of Christ at all but Baals Priests Seducers of the people false Prophets Hirelings Hypocrites Deceivers Impostors Antichrists fit only to be cast forth unto the Dunghil trodden under foot of men deserted both their Church assemblies Ministry and withheld their Tithes I beseech them sadly to ponder how God hath thus repaid them in their own false coin and to acknowledge his justice on them in it 5ly Let them consider this notable passage of d Abbot Theon about 530 years after Christ That mens sins ought not to deterre them from but excite them to the frequent participation of the Lords Supper and that those who deem themselves worthy receivers as these supercilious secluders of their Parishioners from the Sacrament doe are most unworthy Nec tamen ex eo debemus nos a Dominica Communione suspendere quia nos agnoscimus peccatores sed ad eam magis ac magis est et propter animae medicinam et purificationem Spiritus avidè festinandum veruntamen ea humilitate mentis ac fide ut indignos nos perceptione tantae gratiae judicantes remedia potius nostris vulneribus expetamus Ali●quin nec anniversaria quidem dignè est praesumenda Communio ut quidam facunt qui in Monasteriis consistentes ita Sacramentorum coelestium dignitatem sanctificationem ac meritum metiuntur ut aestiment ea non nisi sanctos immaculatos debere praesumere et non Potius ut sanctos mundosque nos sua participatione perficiant Qui profectò majorem arrogantiae praesumptionem quam declinare sibi videntur incurrunt quia vel tunc cum ea percipiunt dignos se ejus perceptione dijudicant Multo enim justius est ut cum hac cordis humilitate qua credimus et fatemur illa sacrosancta mysteria nunquam pro merito nos posse contingere singulis ea Dominicis diebus ob remedium nostrorum aegcitudinem praesumamus quam ut vana persuasione cordis elati vel post annum dignos eorum participio nos esse credamus Wherefore as the blessed antient Martyr e Ignatius in his Epistle to the Ephesians thus exhorts them to the frequent reception of the Eucharist Date itaque operam ut crebrius congregemini ad Eucharistiam et gloriam Dei Quando enim saepius in idem loci convenitis labefactantur vires Satanae et ignita illius ad peccat●m jacula irrita resiliunt which f Joannes C●●machus likewise seconds pressing the frequent reception of the Eucharist upon these and other Grounds which the primitive Christians daily and frequently received in common as the marginal g Authors besides those forecited and Eusebius De Demonstratione vangelica lib. 1. c. 10. p. 300. inform us So let our rigid Innovators now imitate this their practice for the future lest they increase the power kingdom of Satan their own and their Parishioners sins and damnation by debarring them from this spiritual balm and soveraign means of their Salvation instead of making them more worthy and prepared to receive it or lesse sinfull by their Suspension from it 6ly Let them ponder that the Primitive Fathers and Christians though they were over-rigid to such as fell away to Idolatry through fear in times of persecution yet upon their repentance they admitted them to receive the Lords Supper at home in private when they lay sick upon their death-beds though they stood actually excommunicated from the Church and all publike Ordinances to the end they should not be swallowed up utterly in despair but die comfortably as the Members of Christ as h Bishop Iewel proves at large by the story of Serapion and Concil. Carthaginense 6. Can. 13. With what hearts faces consciences then can these Cathari and Novations deny this Sacrament now to their Parishioners who earnestly desire and long after it both in their healths sicknesses and at their very deaths though never actually excommunicated nor guilty of such Grosse Apostacy to Idolatry when as they freely admit them to their Church-assemblies and all other publick Ordinances contrary to the practice of the Primitive Churches Fathers who cast all such as were excommunicated for any scandalous sins crime or heresie ont of their Churches debarred them from their Congregations and all Christian Communion with them in prayer or any other publike Ordinances as well as in the Lords Supper which is most apparent by the Excommunications and presidents of i Serapion k Numerianus l Philip and m Theodosius the Emperors n Apoiinarius and o Arius the Hereticks with others recorded in Ecclesiastical Histories By this pregnant Testimony of Tertullian in his Apology Summumque futuri judicii praejudicium est si quis ita deliquerit ut a Communione orationis et Conventus et omnis sancti commercii relegetur By these phrases of p St. Cyprian whereby he expresseth the nature and use of Excommunication in his age Arcere cohibere ejicere excludere pellere rejicere ab Ecclesia Seperare a Christi corpore c. By these expressions of q Origen Ab Ecclesiae corpore desecari per Ecclesiae Praesides Auferatur è populo Dei eradicetur et tradatur Satana Is qui praesidet populo regit Ecclesiasticam disciplinam ejicit eum de Congregatione fidelium In Ecclesiis Christi consuetudo tenuit talis ut qui manifesti sunt in magnis delictis ejiciantur ab oratione Communi c. By this phrase of r Gregorius Thaumaturgus Bishop of Neo-Caesaria against covetors plunderers of Captives and other mens goods for filthy gain whom he resolves to be a Dei Ecclesia abdicati which Theodorus Balsamon Patriarch of Antioch thus expounds Ecclesia abdicatus id est ejectus et al●onus dicuntur enim abdicati filii quando propter aliqua crimina ab haereditate paterna alienantur In tempore autem talis calamitatis existimare aliorum calamitatem esse sui lucri occasionem est impiorum hominum et Dei invisorum et qui omnem improbitatem superant Unde visum est eos abdicare pro eo quod est aperte Ecclesia expellere et a sidelium multitudine separare ne propter ipsos Dei ira ad omnes veniat c. Which I wish the plundering Covetous Saints of our age would consider being all ipso jure excommunicated persons Qui ea rapiunt