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A69915	A plea for the Non-Conformists giving the true state of the dissenters case, and how far the Conformists separation from the Church of Rome, for their Popish superstitions and traditions introduced into the service of God, justifies the Non-Conformists separation from them for the same : in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his sermon, called, Scrupulous conscience, inviting hereto : to which is added, A parallel scheme of the pagan, papal and Christian rites and ceremonies : with a narrative of the sufferings underwent for writing, printing and publishing hereof / by Thomas De Laune.	De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.; Danson, Thomas, d. 1694.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Eikōn tou thēriou.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Narrative of the sufferings of Thomas Delaune.	1684 (1684)	Wing D893; Wing D891; Wing D892; ESTC R12757	93,215	122

before the 25th year of his Age. 6. Archia-Diaconis offerens The Arch-Deacon presenting those who are to be promoted to the Order of Deacons each of them being decently habited unto the Bishop sitting in his Seat before the Altar saith Reverend Father 7. The Bishop shall ask Do you know them to be worthy The Arch-Deacon shall answer As much as humane Frailty suffers me to know I know and tes●ifie that they are worthy 8. The Bishop shall speak to the Clergy and People If any one hath ought against these Persons let him come forth and with Confidence speak for God and before God 9. Lastly the Bishop takes and delivers to them all the Book of the Gospel saying Receive the power of reading the Gospel in the Church of God 10. The Bishop shall say the Ministers and Chaplains answering Lord have mercy upon us O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us that it may please thee to bless sanctifie and consecrate these Elect. R. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. 11. They sing one and the same Hymn only the one is in Latine the other in English Veni Creator Spiritus Mentes tuarum visita c. 12. The Bishop shall lay his hands upon the head of each of them kneeling upon their knees before him saying to every one Receive the Holy Ghost whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven and whose sins thou dost retain they are retained 13. The Peace of God be always with you the Blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and holy Ghost descend upon you English Pontificial 1. WE daclare That no Deacons or Ministers be Ordained but only upon the Sundays immediately following Jejuna quatuor temporum commonly call'd Ember-weeks Co●sti● Can. Eccl. Can. 31. 2. And this be done in the Cathedral or Parish-Church where the Bishop resideth and in the time of divine Service in the presence not only of the Arch-Deacon but of the Dean Ibid. 3. And here it must be declared unto the Deacon that he must continue in that Office the space of a whole year except for reasonable causes it shall otherwise seem good unto the Bishop The Book of Ordering Priests and Deacons 4. The Bishop before he admit any Person to holy Orders shall diligently examine him in the presence of those Ministers that shall assist him at the Imposition of hands Can 35. 5. None shall be admitted a Deacon except he be 23 years of Age and every man which is admitted a Priest shall be full 24 years old The Preface to the manner and form of making Priests and Deacons 6. The Arch-Deacon or his Deputy shall present unto the Bishop sitting in his Chair near to the holy Table such as desire to be ordained Deacons each of them being decently habited saying these words Reverend Father 7. The Bishop shall say Take heed that the Persons whom you present unto us be apt and meet for their Learning The Arch-Deacon shall answer I have enquired of them and also examin'd them and think them so to be 8. Then the Bishop shall say to the People Brethren if there be any of you who knoweth any Impediment or notable Crime in any of these Persons let him come forth in the Name of God and shew what it is 9. Then the Bishop shall deliver to every one of them the New-Testament saying Take thee Authority to read the Gospel in the Church of God 10. The Bishop with the Clergy and People shall sing or say the Letany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy on miserable Sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy on us that it may please thee to bless these thy Servants Respon We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. 11. They sing one and the same Hymn only the one is in Latine the other in English Come Holy Ghost our Souls inspire And enlighten with Celestial fire 12. The Bishop shall lay his hands severally upon the heads of every one that receive the Order of Priesthood the Receivers humbly kneeling upon their Knees and the Bishop saying Receive the Holy Chost whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven and whose sins thou dost Retain they are retained 13. The Peace of God And the blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Of all which Progress not one word in all the New-Testament AND as a further Confirmation of our Symbolizing with Popery in our Rites and Service take a few Instances First That the Papists not only so long approv'd our Liturgy and kept their Communion in our Church in that Worship as before Remark't from Dr. More but also that the Popes themselves have offered to Confirm the same as Doctor Morton's Appeal discovers and that Pope Pius the 4 th and Gregory 13. offered to Queen Elizabeth to Confirm the English Liturgy as Camden in the Life of Queen Elizabeth testifies Dr. Boys produceth the Pope's Letter and Bristow's Approbation in his 39 th Motive And that the Jesuit Dr. Carryer saith That the Common Prayer and Catechism contain nothing contrary to the Romish Service Mountague asserts that our Service is the same in most things with the Church of Rome and that the Differences are not so great that we should make any separation Two famous Instances more we have mentioned in a Book called The Common Prayer-book Vnmasked p. 9. One of a Jesuit who coming not many years since to the Service at Pauls declared he lik't it exceeding well neither had he any Exception to it but that it was not done by their Priests The other that upon the Pope's Bull that Interdicted Queen Elizabeth Secretary Walsingham procured two Persons to come into England from the Pope to whom he shew'd the London and Canterbury Service in their Cathedrals in all the Pomp of it who thereupon declared that they wondred the Pope should be so ill informed and advised to interdict a Prince whose Service and Ceremonies so symboliz'd with his own and therefore returning to Rome they possess'd the Pope that they saw no Service Ceremonies or Orders in England but might very well serve in Rome whereupon the Bull was Recalled As to the taking of Collects out of the Mass-book 't is said by the Resolver p. 43. That if those prayers are good which he affirms to be very good then such a symbolizing he saith cannot make them bad To which it is Reply'd that the goodness or badness of Worship and Service as to the matter and form is to be measured not by our Fancies but the Rule of God's Word But we do not find any such pattern of shreds of Prayers or Collects to be said or sung though such things Pope Gregory found in the Ritual of Numa Pompilius which were said or sung in their Processions to their Gods The Al●aron Talmud and Apocripha may have as we suppose good things in

and to reduce them in unity Whitgift propounded three Articles to the Ministers by them to be Subscribed but adds Cambden 'T is ●●credible what Controversies and Disputations arose upon this what Troubles Whitgift suffered of certain Noble Men c. How the said Whitgift vexed the poor Dissenters what Letters were writ to him from the Counsel and Treasurer Cicil upon their complaints and his Answers you have at large in a late piece called the Harmony between the old and present Nonconformists some small abridgment thereof take as followeth not unworthy of your notice viz. in a Letter sent unto the Arch Bishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London from her Majesties Council September 20. 1584. We have heard of late times sundry complaints against a great number of Preachers whereby some were de●rived of their Livings some suspended from their Ministry and Preaching especially such who instruct the people against your Spiritual Courts advancing their profits by such kind of proceedings and particularly the lamentable estate of the Church in the County of Essex Where there is a great number of Zealous and Learned Preachers suspended from their Cures the vacancy of their place for the most part without any Ministry or Preaching Prayers and Saments and in some places of Certain appointed to those void Rooms being persons neither of Learning nor of good Names and in other places of the Country a great number notoriously unfit Chargable with Ignorance and with great enormous faults as Drunkenness filthiness of Life Gamsters at Cards hunting of Ale Houses and such like against whom we hear not of ●ny Proceedig but that they are quietly suffered to the Slander of the Church to the offence of good people yea to the famishing them for want of good teaching and thereby dangerous to the subverting of many Weaklings from their duties to God and Her Majesty by secret Jesuits and Counterfiet Papists c. And in a Letter to the Arch-Bishop by the Lord Treasurer Burleigh Dated July 5. 1584. it is said It may please your Grace I am sorry to Trouble you so often as I do But I am more Troubled my self not only with many private Petitions of Sundary Ministers Recommended from Persons of Credit for peaceable persons yet greatly Troubled but also am I dayly now Charged by Counsellers and Publick Persons to neglect my duty in not staying these your Graces Proceedings so vehement and so general against Ministers and Preachers as the Papists thereby are greatly Encouraged and evil dsposed persons animated and thereby the Queens Majesties Safety Endangered With these kind of Arguments I am dayly Assaulted and now my Lord I am come to the sight of an Instrument of 24 Articles of great length and Curiosity formed in a Romish Stile to Examine all manner of Ministers in this time without Distinction of persons Which Articles are Intituted A pud Lambeth May 1581. To be Executed ex officio mero c. Which Articles I find so Curiously Penned so full of Branches and Circumstances and I think the Inquisitors of Spain use not so many questions to Comprehend and to Trap their Preys I know the Canonists can defend these with all their Particles but surely under your Graces Correction This Judicial and Canonical Sifting of poor Ministers is not to Edify and Reform and in Charity I think they ought not to answer to all these Nice Points except they were very Notorious Offenders in Papistry or Heresy I write with the Testimony of a Good Conscience c. This kind of Proceeding is too much Savouring the Romish Inquisition and is rather a Device to seek for Offenders then to Reform any and in another Letter adds seeking rather by Excommunication to urge 〈◊〉 to Accuse themselves and then punish them The Arch-Bishop makes a large reply In it Saith thus I have taken upon me the defence of the Religion and Rites of this Church of England to appease the Sects of Schisms therein to Reduce all the Ministry thereof to Uniformity and due Obedience Herein I intend to be constant and not to Waver with every Wind The which also my place my person my duty the Law Her Majesty and the Goodness of the Cause doth Require of me and wherein your Lordship and Others all things considered ought in duty to Assist and Countenance me It is strange that a man in my place dealing with so good Warranties as I do should be so encountred and for not yielding should be accounted wilful but I must be Contented Vincit qui patitur And if my friends herein forsake me I trust God will not neither the Law her Majesty who hath laid the Charge on me and are able to protect me Many were the Severe Laws made against the Nonconformists which were put in Execution with Great Cruelty To the Suspending Imprisoning and Executing many of the Faithful Servants of Christ in this Queens Reign whereof Fuller in his Ecclesiastical History gives a particular Account The High Commision Court that grand Grievance Set up also by her In the next place I shall give you some Confirmation of the Truth of the prevalency of Popery under a Protestant Mask in the Rites and Ceremonies imposed in these and succeeding times by the witness Bourn by several Eminent Dissenters which we find upon Record in several Books viz. A Book called the Register another the Abridgment which was a Book Delivered to King James by the Ministers of Lincoln Diocess Anno 1605. In the Register page 3. We have the 24 Articles agreed in the Synod and Confirmed by the Queen Exhibited to Mr. Edward Dering and his Answers thereto Anno 1573. whereof Receive his Answer to the first Article The Article was whether the Book Intituled the Book of Common Service allowed by publick Authority in this Realm is to be allowed in the Church of God by Gods Word or no To which he replyed That The Similitude that this Book hath with the Form of Prayer which the Papists used I think declineth from the Equity of those Laws Deut. 7. 25 12 30 18 4. Which Thing our Fathers so much Regarded in the Primitive Church that their Books are full of great Complaints against all Similitude to be had with the Gentles yea the Second Council of Bracca made a Decree that no Christian should have either Bay-leaves or Green Boughs in their houses because the Gentles so Accustomed and at this day all Reformed Churches in France Polonia Helvetia Scotland and other places have changed that Form of Prayers which Prudency of all Ages if we shall Condemn the Rebuke of the Apostle I think will Teach us 1 Cor. 14. 36. Came the Word of God out from you or came it unto you only Secondly We have the Psalms Venite Benedictus Magnificat nunc Demittis usual in our Ministry of which we can give no good reason nor I see no cause why we should more leave out Ave Maria and because of parting the Scriptures again

the Supream Law-givers unrepealable Statutes quite exploding what 's undeniably borrowed from the Pompilian or Pontifical Canons Some Sheets have been Printed off of what I intended to present to you but the Messenger of the Press interupted the procedure and got me Committed to Newgate where I am now confined There is nothing done nor was intended to be done but a fair Examination of those things yonr Sermon invited to which I had thought if esteemed Criminal should fall rather within the Cognizance of Divines then the men of Law For methinks the Pandects should not be the Oracles of Religion and that temporal Statutes should be so Civil as to give precedency to the sacred Records 'T is possible that inquirers into Religion will look upon it as a preposterous proceeding and disagreeable to the Nature of the Christian Faith to force doubting persons by penaltyes to Embrace it for that can never make them good Converts but Hypocrites May they not say that t is a horid disparagement to the self-evidencing Light of the Gospel if it cannot stop the mouths of the Gain-sayers any other way then by the Rigid Execution of Acts of State I cannot find that Christ or his Disciples ever Church-cursed or Newgated Scrupulous Consciences to Conformity My Confinement is for accepting your invitation to hear both sides and I appeal to you whether it be Candid to punish me for Obeying a Guide of the Church I look upon you in honour Obliged to procure my Sheets yet unfinished a publick Pasport and to me my Liberty Else I must conclude it unfair and that if the irresistible Logick of Goals grows Al a-mode it will make the Reformation some pretend to suspected to be very little Meritorious of theat Name Religion is a Sacred thing and has been most horribly abused by such as have superadded their own inventions or those Traditional Fopperies received from our Deceiv'd and Superstitious Ancestors I am satisfied you as well as Dr. Stillingfleet will own or ther 's no debating with you that the Scripture is our only Rule of Faith If so pray let your Scrupulous Consciences be won to Conformity by that All Men are not of Equal Capacity to apprehend things doubtfull for if they had been so there had beed no necesity of Preachers and the Methods of convincing Men is as plainly lay'd down in the Bible as any thing there viz. By plain demonstrative Arguments meek and winning Perswasions not the Sylogisms of Prisons Pillories c. I Beseech you in the fear of God and as you will answer it to our great Lord and Master Jesus Christ that without respect to any other end then the good of Souls as the profession you take Obliges you to that you would Treat Scupulous Consciences as you would be dealt withal your self If they have no reason for their Dissent and will without ground suffer Imprisonments with all the Ruinous Concomitants of so dismal a Circumstance t is certain that Bedlam is more fit for them then such places of Confinement as are appointed for men in their wits and by consequence t is pity to be so severe with such Simpletons But if you will allow them any Modicum of Reason then I appeal to all the Guid's of the Church whether it be not more consonant to the precepts of our Soveraign Legislator to confute them by his Rules rather then by such Coercive methods which his Majesty judg'd Ineffectual in his Declaration of indulgence March 1672 As Truth seeks no Corners nor Suborners and as Real Beauty will not be beholden to the Artificial dawbings of a Pencil so the Christian Religion where professed in its naked Simplicity needs no other argument to beget Proselites then its own Lovely and Illustrious Features altogether plain honest and every way Amiable voyd of all Meretricious Gawdery or that Majestical Pomp which pleases only the External Sense I have no malignity against any Person whatsoever much less against your Church or any of its Members all I desire is that Scrupulous Consciences who trouble not the peace of the Nation should be dealt withal at least as weak Brethren according to Rom. 14. 1. and not Ruin'd by Penaltys for not Swallowing what 's imposed under the notion of Decency and Order tho Excentrick to the Scheme we have of it in our only Rule of Faith Sr. I intreat you to excuse this Trouble from a Stranger who would fain be convinced by something more like Divinity then Negate where any Message from you shall be welcome to Your Humble Servant Thomas Delaune From the Press-yand Newgate the 8 th of December 1683. To this Letter Delivered by my Wife I received an Answer to this effect That if I had been Imprisoned upon the account of Answering your Book you would do me any kindness that became you But not hearing from you I sent the following Letter by my Wife January Die Nono 1683. Reverende Vir QVod semel atque iter●m Concionatus eras Typisque mandaveras de Dubitanti Conscientia quotquot Diversae sint sententiae circa quosdam Ritus ac Ceremonias ad utriusque partis Rationes Examinandas satis publice vocitaverat Tacentibus alijs in illa re tibi parebam non litigand Causa imparnim est Congressus inter te tantum virum me tantillum sed uthujus-modi Litem adimendi sicuti praeceperas adhibeatur occasio Si propter tale duntaxat obsequium me paenas daturum nescio quot quibusve modis decretum fuerit Nunquid nova vincendi ratio sacris paginis inaudita apud quosdam Antesignanos exoritur Quid de his rebus sentiendum esse videatur ex sacro Codice ac probatis Scriptoribus disquirere proposui te Cunctos vaciliantes tam acriter invitante ex illo Lumine semitarum ex lla Lucerna Psal 119. 105. Rationes aliquot hauseraml adversus varios ac Multiplices Errores qui in Ecclesiant Irrepserunt Easola de causa usque ad Carcerem ubi nihil amabile est adactus sum Vtrum Istiusmodi Argumenta valuerint ad vestrae Concienis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 probandas sub Judice Supremo lis sit Anve tali modo ullus ex dubitantibus in spirituale Cogi potuerit Ovile Judex esto Nihil adversus Regiam Majestatem nihil de Regimine Civili nihil contra Monarchiae pacem asseritur De Rituum ac Ceremoniarum origine deque rebus quae specie veritatis Etiamsi parum recte in dubitantes Objiciuntur sola dissertatioest Quid de me Curia decreverit nescio Fiat summi Patris Voluntas Vniversis qui salutis humanae largitorem secundum verbum ejus Colunt Pacem internam ac externam in hoc ae●ernamque in futuro seculo Precatur Thomas De Laune Vt Responsumaliquod quod Theologum decet per dilectiss●mam meam Conjugem uti promisisti remittas obse●ro The English of which is thus January the 9th 1683. Reverend Sir What you once and again preached and then