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A94222	Reasons shewing that there is no need of such a reformation of the publique 1. Doctrine. 2. Worship. 3. Rites & ceremonies. 4. Church-government. 5. Discipline. As it is pretended by reasons offered to the serious consideration of this present Parliament, by divers ministers of sundry counties in England. By H.S. D.D. Chaplain to his Majestie in ordinary.	H. S. (Henry Savage), 1604?-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing S762; Thomason E1043_7; ESTC R202300	19,132	32

invite them to come to the Lords Table Therefore say they the foresaid Rubrick seems to dispense with Gods invitation How rightly say they let all sober men consider I answer That whether that be a Dispensation with Gods invitation let all sober men judge too and of these three Easter is to be one because though every Lords day be celebrated in memory of our Lords Resurrection yet Easter day according to the judgement of the Church comes nearest the day of his Resurrection But 6ly where it is added in that Rubrick He shall receive the Sacraments and other Rites c. This say they is no other but non-sense or worse for what other Sacraments are then to be received or what other Rites I answ. 1. That by Sacraments are understood the two signes Bread and Wine which being partes integrales similares receive the denomination of the whole as every part of water is water because 't is a similar part So that were there nothing more then this piece of Phylosophy in it it were not to be accounted non-sense But there 's Divinity too to make it good For first you must grant the Sacrament of the Lords Supper and the holy Communion to be in substance the same but now sayes the Apostle 1 Cor. 10. 16. The bread that we break is it not the Communion of the body of Christ The cup of blessing that we bless is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ Wherein you see that both the integrall parts of the Communion receive the denomination of the whole 2. For other Rites the party to communicate may need and desire absolution in case of scandalous and Conscience-wasting sins He may receive confirmation in case he hath never received that or the Communion before And are not these rites or can these be done without rites 7. Exception is this The last Rubrick before the Catechisme in order to Confirmation concludeth thus It is certain that children baptized have all things necessary to salvation and be undoubtedly saved Is this a truth say they Answ. That it is a great truth inasmuch as no other ceremony is required on our parts and the promise of God makes it sure on his part wherefore if they cast not themselves into doubtings charity binds us not to doubt of their salvation 8. Exception is That the Rubrick after Matrimony says that the new married persons the same day of their Marriage must receive the Communion and yet no man is bound to receive it above three times a year Answ. 1. Why may not this day be one 2. They are not ordinarily to receive above three times a year but in this extraordinary case they are and many do desire to do it but there is not alwayes a sufficient number to communicate a thing required by the Rubrick 9. Exception is That in the last Rubrick for the Communion of the sicke in the time of Plague or any other contagious disease when none of the Parish can be gotten to communicate with the sicke for fear of infection the Minister may onely communicate with him By this say they the Minister is bound not onely to visite him but to communicate with him a thing no way agreeable 1. To Christianity in as much as the very nature of a Sacrament requires a publique administration besides that other Rubricks require a greater number of Communicants even when the Sacrament is given to a sicke person 2. No way agreeable to common humanity in as much as a Minister is bound to hazard his health and life to gratifie an infectious person I answ. 1. That this is not disagreeable to Christianity because that God has promised to be in the midst of two or three gathered together in Christs name 2ly The Rubricks require greater numbers in other cases where they are more likely to be procured as in ordinary diseases they may which cannot be done in this and that 's the reason why the Rubrick here requires it not 2. 'T is not dis-agreeable to humanity in as much as it is said that the Minister may communicate only with the infected person it doth not say that he must do it and therefore he 's not bound hereby to do it unlesse he finds himself bound in conscience or can secure himself from infection 3. Of the body of the Book THe first Exception is That the first words of it are these At what time soever a sinner doth repent c. This in the Rubrick before it is called a sentence of Scripture but say they 't is not onely no sentence of Scripture but it is also dissonant from another To day if ye will hear his voice c. and besides it implies that a man may repent when he will I answer That 't is a sentence of Scripture rendred according to the sense of the place for the If is indefinitely taken it is not if to day onely or if to morrow onely if at this time only or if at that timeonely but if at all if at any time that is to say at what time soever God often in mercy calls us to repentance if at any time at what time soever we answer his call he will receive us graciously yet this does not argue that it is in our power to repent when we will after our refusall of Gods severall gracious invitations But this is not all for after our regeneration and first conversion unto God we fall into sin we go astray and that every day yea seven times a day which makes vs every day confesse and pray to God to forgive us our trespasses according as we are taught by our Saviour And therefore the If signifies not onely At what particular time soever but as often as a sinner shall repent c. so often will God forgive Now nothing that hath been said is dissonant to that place To day if ye will hear his voice c. For though it be the surest way to hear Gods voice to day that is at present lest any should be hardened through the deceitfulnesse of sin Yet God was grieved forty years with his people in the wildernesse before he sware in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest The refusall of the present invitation may prove a means of hardning of us through the deceitfulness of sin but it enforceth no present shutting of the door of mercy against us 2. Exception is against that expression in the Confession there is no health in us as if it were not to be understood by the common sort Answ. That no body can understand this of bodily health but of the salvable condition of the soule which is taken away by sin 3. Exception is against the reading of Te Deum and the Benedicite as interrupting the continued reading of the holy Scriptures which the Preface of that Book say they beareth us in hand is provided against Ans. That there it is provided against breaking of one piece of a Chapter from another and after such