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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91205	A legal resolution of two important quæres of general present concernment. Clearly demonstrating from our statute, common and canon laws, the bounden duty of ministers, & vicars of parish churches, to administer the sacraments, as well as preach to their parishioners; with the legal remedies to reclaim them from, or punish and remove them for their wilfull obstinacy in denying the sacraments to them. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne; to whom these quæres were newly propounded by some clients.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3994; Thomason E495_1; ESTC R203242	21,355	30

all other Christian Churches as I have proved admit these Statutes all repealed yet they are still obliged by their very Office and Pastoral Function to administer the Sacraments to their Parishioners and therefore liable to divine and humane punishments for contempt or neglect thereof If any object in the 2 place That they are now admitted Object 2. to Parochial cures only to preach the Gosple in their Parish Churches but not to administer the Sacraments to their Parishioners as formerly I answer 1. That if there be any such new formes of Answer admissions and Institutions used they are meerly void in Law by the expresse resolution of the Statute of 13 Eliz 6. 12. and the other forecited Acts And Ministers thus admitted are but only bare Lecturers not Parsons Vicars or Incumbents by our Laws so the Church still void notwithstanding such admissions which are only to one part of their ministerial function not to all their spiritual cure 2ly Such admissions to Cures are strange monstrous Impostures Hypocritical Delusions yea grosse Absurdities execrable to God and all honest Christian men enabling Ministers to receive the whole Tithes Dues of their Parishioners yet exempting them from the moity at least of those Pastoral Duties to which the Lawes of God and the Land oblige them We lately decryed it as an impious Solecism excuse in our old lazie non-preaching Parsons and Vicars that they alledged they were instituted only to read Common Prayers Homilies and administer the Sacraments but not to preach to their Parishioners In the Bishop of * Fox Acts and Monuments Vol. 2. p 614. Dunkelden and other Lordly Prelats that they were Ordained Bishops only to Govern the Church confirm and ordain Ministers but not to preach or administer the Sacraments And shall we now after all our late pretences of Reforming their abuses and declamations against their Idlenesse admit our New Parochial Incumbents to plead they are only half-Ministers bound solely to Preach but not to Baptize administer the Lords Supper Catechise visit the Sick Marry Bury as all their Predecessors did If any Gentlemans hired Shepherd should neglect to fold his sheep or look them out when strayed and then plead he was only bound by his Office to feed keep them in their Pasture Or if his hired Cook should tell him that as his Cook he is bound only to boyl but not to rost his meat or bake his Venison Or should his Laundresse affirm she was hired only to make his Bed and sweep his chamber but not to wash his Linnen or starch his bands or cuffs Or his Groom maintain he was by his place obliged only to dress his horses give them hay but not to water or carry them their provender Would not all deride these their absurd irrational allegations and their Master cudgel them to the performance of all the parts of their respective duties or else turn them presently out of Service And will God or Men then indure that their Ministers of the Gospel especially when pretending extraordinary eminency Diligence and Saintship above others of their Brethren should thus juggle with them to their faces as openly to affirm they took the sole cure of their souls only to reap all their Dues Tithes and to feed them with Gods word in the Pulpit of which the * Mat. 28. 19 20. Acts 26. ●8 c. 15. 3. c. 21. 22. 2 Tim. 4. 17. unconverted unbaptized Heathens are capable as wel as Christians but not with Christs Sacramental body or bloud at the Lords Table whereto professed Christians only have a right 1 Cor. 10. 16. to 20. c. 11. 22. to the end To instruct their aged but not baptize their infant or cat●chize their younger Parishioners Yea that they took upon them their Pastoral Cure only to shear their ●leeces but not to own them as any part of their Church or Flock or discharge the duty of a Pastor towards them unlesse they will unmodle themselves from a Parochial Church into a private Congregational conventicle Those who have hearts of * Eze. 3. 9. Zech. 7. 22. Adamant or faces of Brasse publikely to make such an untheological irrational illegal unministerial Plea as this so diametrically contrary to the very essence of their Pastoral Function duty and to their painfull Predecessors practises in all ages Churches to our blessed Saviours own practise precepts and his description of a true and good Shepherd John 10. yea to the definition of a true * See Dr. John White and Dr. Fei●d of the Church visible Church wherein the Word of God is truly preached and the Sacraments duly administred may justly fear they are no true Shepherds but rather theeves robbers hirelings because they withhold from their flocks the Sacrament of their Spiritual Regeneration yea the Body Bloud Cup of our Lord Jesus Christ the g 1 Pet. 2. 3. Hebr. 13. 20. chief Shepherd of the Sheep who bequeathed it to them as their chiefest Legacy at his death though themselves stile and confesse them to be the very seals of the Covenant of Grace which they hold forth unto them only as a Blank without a Seal refusing to set these Seals unto it when importuned by their people upon any terms but conformity to their own new Church-ways thereby making the very * 1 Cor. 11. 26. to 33 1 Cor. 10. 16 17. Sacrament ●f Christian love and union a meer Seminary of Scisme contention division seperation And because they entered not by the door into the Sheepfold that is by any legal form of admission to their whole pastoral cure but climbed up some other new way only to preach unto their people rather as to a company of unconverted Heatheus than a Christian Church till new minted into a segregated Congregations collected out of sundry Parishes though never so remote but not to give the Sacraments to them upon any terms h Mat. 23. 23. Lu. 11. 42. which they ought to do yet not to leave their preaching undone which though it be the first and chiefest part of their Ministry yet is not the quarter part of their Pastoral function as Scriptures and our Laws resolve If A. object that he hires another to baptize and Object 3. give the Lords Supper sometimes to his Parishoners though he do it not himself his judgement and conscience being to the contrary I answer 1. This is a clear confession that it is a part Answer of his own duty else why should he hire another to discharge it in his stead 2. This proves the former Objection that he was admited only to preach a meer fiction 3ly If he refuse to do it himself out of conscience as a thing utterly unlawfull in his Iudgement for him to administer to his Parishioners whiles in a Parrochial way with what conscience can he hire another to doe that in his behalf and right which himself holds sinfull unlawfull for himself to doe Doubtlesse a sincere purely tender