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A56210	Some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced and pursued by our anticommunion ministers wherein is discovered the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper ... : with a new discovery of some Romish emmissaries, Quakers / by William Prynne of Swainswicke, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing P4085; ESTC R5157	39,850	59

many years together upon the forementioned Popish principles or any other ground especially not being all actually excommunicated or secluded from the Church and all other publike ordinances as he was but freely admitted by them to the Church and all other publike Ordinances but the holy Communion which he was not The s●d effects whereof instead of making their people more worthy more prepared to receive this Sacrament and more regardfull of it I have [f] elsewhere touched and shall more largely insist on in its due place Only here I shall desire our Ministers to observe what [g] two Popish French Councils heretofore have noted ●ouching the debarring particular persons only from the Lords Sapper for a years space or two by vertue of actual Excommunications judicially denounced against them and the dangerous effects it hath produced instead of working any reformation in them or others Quia nonnulli Excommunicationum Sententias et quod detestabilius est Dominici corporis Sacramentum contemnentes 〈◊〉 temporibus in Sen●entus morantur De participatione Dominici corporis non curantes c. Quonian multos reperimus in●urato animo claves sanctae matris Ecclesiae vilipendentes excommunicationis se●temi●im diutius sustinere Corpus Christi in Ecclesia in Biennio vel Triennio non suscipere vel etiam non conf●●eri Praecipimus omnibus et singulus Rectoribus c. ut in tal●bus salubre Consilium apponatur If these their judicial excommunications of particular persons instead of reforming their lives made many of them only to contemn the censures of the Church and the very Sacrament of the Lords body which is more detestable and not to care to receive it in two or three years space which they reputed a horrid mischief fit to be redressed by wholesome Counsel Then certainly our Ministers Antichristian undiscreet * wilfull keeping back excommunicating of whole Churches Parishes Cities from the Sacrament two or three years space together or more without any actual excommunication legally denounced against them for any scandalous sins must ne●ds b● a more detestable Crime and make the generality of the people not only to neglect contemn their Authority Ministry Church-censures but even the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in self yea totally to withdraw themselves from it and all other publick Ordinances yea from our Churches too as many thousands of them have done of late years since debarred from this Sacrament under pretext of making them more fit and worthy to receive i● ere admitted to it It is an antient proverbial experimental truth in most other things and Christian duties and so in this Qui non est bodie Cras minus aptus erit Those Parishioners whom our Ministers deemed unfit unworthy to receive this Sacrament the first year they withheld it from them they find more prophane unfit neglectfull to receive it the next year yea much more the third and fourth year than the second Upon which account they have wholly cast this Sacrament aside for sundry years and must do so till Doomsday against Christs own command their Ministerial office and the Primitive Churches Fathers practice in frequent administring the Communion to all their people Let them therefore henceforth learn this politick safe Lesson even from their Popish Tutors who debating these Questions [h] Utrum Presbyter peccet mortaliter dando Eucharistiam ei quem scit in peccato mortali constitutum And Nunquid esset minus malum dare tali Hostiam non consecratam vel non consecrare quam Eucharistiam tali dare Resolve negatively with some distinctions as to the first and to the last without any distinction thus [i] Resp Quod Non Ideo dicitur prorsus quidem falsa remedia sunt absicienda quae veris et manifestis periculis sunt graviora as this debarring the people from the Sacrament for so long a space hath experimentally proved occasioning many more grievous sins mischiefs than it hath prevented being a remedy far worse and more dangerous than the diseases it should cure Wherefore since (i) St. Aug. r●●olve● Ne Catholicis quidem Episcopis consentiendum est sicubi fo te f●lluntuc et contra canonicas Scripturas al●q id setiant And (2) Pope Pius the 2d concludes Re●stendum est quibuscunque in faciem sive Paulus sive●●●●us si qui ad Veritatem non ambulat Evangelii with whom (3) Bishop Iewel concurr I hope none of our Ministers guilty of this Crime can or will be offended with me for his my plain dealing with them And I shall intreat all such indiscreet over-rigid Ministers seriously to consider the Popish Principles forementioned wheron thi● their false remedy is founded with the bi●ter fruits it hath produced And seeing it is an unquestionable sin in themselves not to administer or ●●ke an● in their people not to receive the Sacraments many moneths nay years together as well as not to pray preach read hear sing Psalms and praise God for his mercies nor neglect baptism let them now at last repent reform without delay and no longer excuse much [k] lesse defend this Sacrilegious unchristian sin since [l] Primasius and [m] Bishop Iewel resolve Nemo periculosius peccat quam qui peccata defend●t And St. [n] Paul himself determines tha●there damnation is just who do evil yea so great an evil as this to rob whole parishes of the Lords own Supper Table Cup Body Bloud for divers years that good may come of it much more if they persevere imp●nitently therein after all admonitions to the contrary The (4) Emperor Domitian intending a Reformation of the Empire which afore his time Tiberius Caligula Nero and other wicked Emperors had spoiled and defaced asked Apollonius Tyanaeus a Philosopher What order were best to be taken therein Who made him answer Sir You must do as the Musician bad his Scholars do How is that said Domitian Sir quoth Apollonius There was a cunning Musician that set his Scholars to an ignorant and homely Minstrel to learn Musick of him but before he sent them out he gave them this Lesson Whatsoever ye see your Master do see that ye avoid it he is unlearned and his Lessons and manner of singing naught therefore see ye do the contrary Even so may I say Whatsoever we see that they have done who were our late Masters before us that have almost destroyed our Churches and Realms too by their unskilfulnesse erronious Doctrines Illegal Practices Innovations Oppressions Schisms tolerations of all Religions c. Let us now do the quite contrary to repair restore them to unity tranquillity prosperity safety More particularly set all our Ministers combine together henceforth duly and frequently to administer the holy Communion to their people being the chief means bond of Christian love and unity yea Signum demonstrativum unitatis Ecclessae cui homines aggregantur per ipsam as the [5] School-men Canonists our own A●ticles with foreign

being highly incensed so far exceeded the bounds of justice and reason in the punishment thereof that he caused his Souldiers without sea●ching out the Malefactors to slay prom●scuously in a rage no lesse than 7000 of the Citizens putting no difference betwixt the guilty and innocent After this bloody execution at the Emperours next coming to the Church of Millain to pray and do his devotions as of custom he used St. Ambrose stepping to the Church-door as he was about to enter into the Church with much boldnesse prohibiting him to enter used this speech unto him Thou seemest O Prince not to understand what a monstrous slaughter of people is committed by thee neither doth rage suffer thee to weigh with thy self what thou hast done yet must thou know that from dust we came and to dust we shall Let not therefore the brightnesse of thy Robes hide from thee the weaknesse of flesh that is under them Thy Subjects are of the same metal that thou art and serve the same Lord that thou dost With what Eyes therefore wilt thou behold the house of this Common Lord and with what feet wilt thou tread on his holy pavements Wilt thou reach those hands dropping yet with the blood of Innocents to receive the most sacred body of the Lord Wilt thou put that precious blood of his to thy mouth which in a rage hast spilt so much Christian blood Depart ra●her and heap not one sin upon another Neither refuse this Bond of Excommunication which the Lord of all doth ra●ifie in heaven It is not much and it will restore thee the health of thy Soul All which the Emperour hearing with great patience returned presently to his Palace without entring the Church obeying the excommunication and there continued above 8 moneths space without coming any more into the Church or putting on his Emperial Robes After which upon his earnest request and publike repentance for this crime and his enacting this Law by St. Ambrose his advise by way of penance as some write That from thenceforth no man whom he or his Successors should condemn to dye should be executed within thirty dayes after the Sen●ence of death denounced against him he being absolved from his excommunication came again into the Church and there making his prayers and performing his devotions received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper From which History it is apparent 1. That Excommunicate persons in that age were not suspended only from the Lords Supper but secluded from entring into the Church it self and from all publike [x] divine Ordinances used in it as well as from the Lords Table and from 〈◊〉 Christian Communion Hence [y] sundry Councils since with [z] Gratian and all [a] Popish Canonists resolve and decree Major Excommunicatio Separat ab ingressu Ecclesiae à Sacramentis et à Communione fidelium Excommunicatus non potest interesse Divi●is Officiis aut cum aliis orare in Ecclesia Nec debet extra ita prope stare quod audiat And if any such excommunicate person come into the Church he is presently to be thrust out of it and the Priest must give over his begun Masse Prayers Preaching and not proceed therein till ●e depart the Church Neither may any Christian wittingly eat drink conferre or trade with such a one under pain of Excommunication Yea our own Statute of 5 E. 6. ch. 4. against such as fight and strike in the Church Enacts That such an Offender shall be excommunicate an●be excluded from the fellowship and company of Christs Congregation This Excommunication our Laws [b] Lawbooks take notice of which likewise disables men to sue in any Civil Court of Iustice if pleaded in barr against them under Seal In brief the 33 Article of the Church of England ratified by the Statute of 13 Eliz. c. 13. and Subscriptions of all our Ministers Defines Excommunication to be a cutting off from the Unity of the Church and whole multitude of the faithfull who ought to avoid an excommunicate person as an Heathen and a Publican untill he be openly reconciled by Penance and received into the Church by a Judge that hath Authority thereunto And the Confessions of Bohemia c. 8.14 Of Helvetia c. 16. Of the French Churches c. 32 33. Describe Excommunication to be a removal of wicked scandalous obstinate Sinners from the Holy Fellowship of Believers a throwing them out from the Church and delivering them to Satan by Ecclesiastical punishment And absolution of such upon repentance to be A taking them again into the Church to the Communion of Saints and Sacraments Therefore the New-found Suspension and Excommunication of scandalous persons only from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper without seclusion from the Church and other Ordinances now so much contested for is but a meer Popish Innovation not warranted by Scripture Antiquity our own Statutes Articles or other Protestant Churches Confessions 2. That in that age all Church-members freely admitted to the publike prayers of the Church and not thus actually excommunicated from all Ordinances and the Church it self were freely admitted to the Lords Supper and all excommunicated persons too upon their absolution 3. That the Lords Supper in that age was usually received by all Church-members when ever they publiquely assembled to pray or hear Gods word and no other no greater worthinesse holinesse qualification preparation or self-examination required for Christians free admission to the Communion than to other publike duties which it did then daily accompany This president of St. Ambrose his excommunicating this godly Emperour Theodosius and keeping him above 8 Moneths space from the Church and all publike Ordinances only for his over-rash execution of Justice upon his rebellious mutinous subjects upon so great a provocation notwithstanding his present humiliation and sorrow for it upon the first reprehension and that without any precedent private or publique admonition as is no ways waranted by any precept or president in Gods word nor parallel example in the Primitive Church and censured by sober [c] Protestants as over-harsh indiscreet rash and too Pon●sical yea such as might have then produced [d] a dangerous Schism in the Church to the great prejudice of Religion had not this godly Emperour been more humbly patient prudent than St. Ambrose So it hath in later ages been [e] much abused and insisted on by Antichristian Trayterous Popes Popish Prelates Iesuits Priest to justify their many illegal unchristian unrighteous Excommunications of Christian Emperors Kings Princes their deposing them from their Empires Crowns Kingdoms their absolving their subjects from their allegiance to them and taking up arms against them to the great disturbance of most Christian Empires Realms States Churches Therefore it can be no justification or proof at all for any of our Protestant Ministers wilfully to ab●●ain from the celebration of the Lords Supper and seclude excommunicate all their Parishioners from it not only 8. whole Moneths but almost so