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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

thought fit to be Expunged as giving matter of Scandal and Dissatsfaction to all that Party or that otherwise wished well to that Religion In the first Liturgy of K. Edward The Sacrament of the Lords Body was Delivered with this Benediction That is to say The Body of our Lord Jesus which was given for the preservation of thy Body and Soul to Life Everlasting c. The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ Which being thought by Calvin and his Disciples to give some Countenance to the Cross and Carnal Presence of Christ in the Pacrament which passeth by the Name of Transubstantiation in the School of Rome was Altered into this Form into the said Liturgy That is to say Take and Eat this in Remembrance that Christ dyed for thee and feed on him in thy heart by Faith with thansgiving Take and Drink this c. But the Revisors of the Book joyned both Forms togither least under colour of Rejecting a Carnal they might be thought also to Deny such a Real Presence as was Defended in the writing of the Antient Fathers upon which ground she Expunged also a whole Rubrick at the end of the Communion Service by which it was declared that kneeling at the Participation of the Sacrament were required for no other Reason then for the Signification of the humble and grateful Acknowledgment of the Benefits of Christ given therein unto the worthy Receiver and to avoid that prophanation and disorder which otherwise might have ensued and not for giving any Adoration to the Sacramental Bread and Wine there Bodily Received or in regard of any Real or Essential presence of Christs Body and Blood and to come close to the Church of Rome it was ordered by the Queens Injunctions That the Sacrametal Bread which the Book Required only to be made of the finest Flower should be made round in fashion of the Wafers used in the time of Q. Mary She also ordered that the Lords Table should be placed where the Altar stood that the Accustomed Reverence should be made at the Name of Jesus Musick Retayned in the Church and all the Old Festivals observed with their several Eves by which Complyances and Expunging of the passage before mentioned the Book was made so passable amongst the Papists that for ten years they generally Repaired to their Parish Churches without doubt or scruple as is affirmed not only by Sir Edward Cook in his Speech against Garnet and his Charge given at the Assizes held at Norwich but also by the Queen her self in a Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham then her Embassador in France The same Confessed by Sanders also in his Book De Schismat● and therefore Dr. Heilin in a few Pages after adds viz. And now we may behold the Face of the Church of England as it was first setled and Established under Q. Elizabeth the Government of the Church by Arch-bishops and Bishops c. The Liturgy Conform to the Primitive Pattorn viz. of Popery and all the Rites and Ceremonies therin Prescribed Accomodated to the Honour of God and Encrease of Piety the Festivals Preserved in their former Dignity Observed with all their Distinct Offices Peculiar to them and Celebrated with a Religious Concorse of all sorts of People the Weekly Fasts viz. Weenesdays Fridays and Saturdays The holy time of Lent The Embring Weeks Together with the fast of the Rogation Severally kept by a forbeara●ce of all kind of Flesh not now by Vertue of the Statute as in the Time of King Edw. but as appointed by the Church in her publick Callender before the Book of Common Prayer So Correspondant with Rome The Sacrament of the Lords Supper Celebratited in most Reverend Manner The hoby Table Seated in the Place of the Altar The people making their due Reverence at their first Enterance into the Church Kneeling at the Communion The Confession and the Publick Prayers standing up at the Creed the Gospels and the Gloria Patri and Vsing the Accustomed Reverence at the Name of Jesus Musick Retained in all the Churches in which provision had been made for the Maintenance of it or where the people could be Trained up at least to plain Song all which particulars were either Established by the Laws or Commanded by the Queens Injunctions or otherwise Retained by Vertue of some Antient Vsuages not by Law Prohibited nor is it much to be admired that such a general Conformity to those Cntient viz. Popish Vsuages was constantly Observed in all Cathedrals and the most part of the Parish Churches considering how well they were Presidented by the Court it self in which the Liturgy was Officiated every day both Morning and Evening not only in the publick Chappel but the private Closet Celebrated in the Chappel with Organs and other Musical Instruments and the most Excellent Voices of Men and Children that could be got in all the Kingdom the Gentlemen and Children in their Surplices and the Priests in Copes as oft as they Attended the Divine Service at the Holy Altar The Altar furnished with Rich Plate Two fair Guilt Candlesticks with Tapers in them and a Massy Crucifix of Silver in the midst thereof which last remained there for some years till it was Broke in pieces by Pa●h the Fool no wisor man daring to undertake such a Desperate Service at the Sollictation of Sir Frances Knoles the Queens near Kinsman by the Caries and one who openly appeared in Favour of the Shism at Frankford the Antient Ceremonies accustomably observed by the Knights of the Garter in their Adoration towards the Altar abolished by King Edward the 6th and revived by Queen Mary whereby this Queen Retained as formerly in her Fahers Time for which she Received both Thanks and Honour from the very Enemies viz. the Papists as appears by Hardings Epistle Dedicatory before his answer to the Apology So far Dr. Heilin Thus from what the Sons of the Church Cambden and Burnet and Heilin have Affirmed 'T is Apparent that Queen Elizabeth had a Natural propensity to favour the Papists and that this was Discovered by her making the Terms of Communion much more easie to the Papists in K. Edw. Time whereby she became the more Difficult and Arduous to the Protestant Dissenters and whom she Rigorously Prosecuted for their Dissents Cambden Informs us That about the year 1583. The Queen Who held it for a Maxim that she ought not to be more Remiss in Ecclesiastical Affairs advancing Whitgift from the Sea of Worcester to that of Canterbury above all Commanded him to Re-establish the Discipline of the Church of England that as then lay Dismembred by the connivency of Prelates The Obstinacy of Innovators and by the Power of some Great Ones whilst some Ministers using to their own fancy new Rites of Services in their private houses utterly Condemning the Liturgy and the Appointed Manner of Administring the Sacrament as being in many things contrary to the Scripture and therefore many refused to go to Church to Abolish which things

heard them in English Some alterations were made afterwards in the 2 d of Edw 6. and some by Q Elizabeth and some few by King James but the Body and Essentials of it continued and was preserved for so faith K. Charles the 2 d. In his Preface to the Common-Prayer annext to the Act of Uniformity in these words That we find that in the Reigns of several Princes since the Reformation the Church upon just and weighty Considerations her thereunto moving hath yielded to make such alterations in some particulars as in their respective times were thought convenient yet so as the main Body and Essentials of it as well in the chiefest materials as in the frame and order thereof have still continued the same unto this day and do yet stand firm and unshaken notwithstanding all vain attempts and impetuous assaults made against it by such MEN AS ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE In Confirmation whereof you have the testimony of King James as Mr. Calderwood in his History of the Church of Scotland informs us who tells us that King James in the 8th Session of the General Assembly held at Edenburgh Aug. 4. 1590. said these words in his Speech to them viz The Kirk of Geneva keep Pasch and Yule whereof no Constitution And as for our Neighbour Kirk of England their Service is an evil said Mass in English they want nothing of the Mass but the liftings but that the Kirk of Scotland was the sincerest in the World So that you have the Acknowledgment and Grant of three Kings to the truth hereof that the publick Worship and Service of the Protestant Church of England contained in the English Liturgy and practised in the Church is the same in the main Body and Essentials chiefest Materials Frame and Order with that of the Popish and whoever will take the pains to search into the Popish Breviary Ritual Missal and Pontificial which four comprehend their whole Liturgy will find though there may be some alterations and variations in several particulars yet as the King grants the substance and chiefest materials and order is the same and that ours is taken out of theirs viz. Collects Mattins Eversongs Epistles Gospels Creeds Letanies Consecration Administration of Sacraments Baptism of Infants with Gossips to answer for them Kneeling at the Altar Confiteor Absolution Confirmation Burial Matrimony Visitation of the Sick Ordination of Arch-Bishops Bishops c. And which will appear particularly by what follows Dr. Moore in his Mystery of Iniquity ●ib 2. ch 22. p. 468 says thus For undoubtedly our Her●ieal Reformers did not as is the use of some act out of peevishnes● and spight and please their own humour and impetuosity of Spirit as being part of the chaste Spouse of Christ the true Apostolick Church the Mother of us all deals as a Mother with all those that profess themselves in any sense Children of Christ's Church and therefore would not have them divided more than needs whence it is that out of a spirit of Charity and tender Kindness she has in some things in themselves Indifferent what Indifferent things they are you have heard humbly condescended to symbolize with that lapsed Lady of Rome to bring off her abused Paramours to the pure Worship of God which Condescension as is well known took good effect for some space of Years and the Catholicks joyned in publick prayer and service with us and well they might being as our three Kings have granted so much their own only in the English tongue till that Harlot that makes nothing of having her Children divided forcibly rent off the English Roman Catholick from so reasonable and Christian a Communion and yet saith he does not our Church cease to use this charitable Courtship and sweet Condescension towards them still viz. yet symbolizing with her to win them off to such a Worship as is every way as graceful as their own Dr. Stillingfleet in his Irenicum speaks to this purpose viz. That the great reason why our first Reformers did so far comply with the Papists it was to gain and lay a bait for them and which he hopes was never intended to be a Hook for the Protestants Thirdly Will not the Symbolizing with Popery appear more particularly by comparing our Divine Service in the Common-Prayer and Rubrick with their Divine Service in their Mass-book and Rubrick and how much we have taken them for our pattern and follow their direction in the particulars following viz. First In the time when Divine Service and publick Worship is to be performed Secondly In the Divine Service it self which is to be performed Thirdly In the Rites and Ceremonies performed in Divine Service and Worship First As to the times of Worship their Breviary and Kalendar do divide the year into Feasts Vigils Fasts and Working-days So do we take ours directly from them dividing our Kalendar by theirs both as to Feasts Vigils Fasts Working-days It is true they have more Feasts than we but all ours are found in theirs and taken from them as our Ritual makes manifest For Instance 1. Their Feasts are divided into Movables and fix'd So are ours Their Movable-Feasts and Holy days are Movable Feasts 1. Their Easter-day on which the rest depend is always the first Sunday after the first full Moon which happens next after the 21 st of March and if the full Moon happens upon a Sunday Easter-day is the Sunday after with a Vigil before So ours from them expresly 2. Their Advent-Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew whether before or after and to four Sundays after So ours directly 3. Their Septuagesima-Sunday 9 Weeks before Easter So ours 4. Their Sexagesima-Sunday 8 Weeks before Easter So ours 5. Their Quinquagesima-Sund 7 Weeks before Easter So ours 6. Their Quadragesima-Sunday 6 Weeks before Easter So ours 7. Their Rogation-Sunday 5 Weeks after Easter So ours 8. Their Ascention-day is 40 Days after Easter So ours 9. Their Whitsunday with a Vigil 7 Weeks after Easter So ours 10. Their Trinity-Sunday is 8 Weeks after Easter So ours And 24 Sundays after Trinity 2. Their Fixed Feasts are as followeth viz. Fixed Feasts 1. The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ the first of January 2. The Epiphany 6 January 3. Their Conversion of St. Paul 25 January 4. Their Purification of the blessed Virgin with a Vigil 2 February 5. Their St. Matthias 24 Feb. with a Vigil before it 6. Their Anunciation of the Virgin 25 March Vigil 7. Their St. Mark 25 April 8. Their St. Philip and Jacob 1 May. 9. Their St. Barnabas 11 June 10. Their Nativity of St. John Baptist 24 June and Vigil 11. Their St. Peter the 29 June Vigil 12. Their St. James the 25 July Vigil 13. Their St. Bartholomew 24 August and Vigil 14. Their St. Matthew 21 September Vigil 15. Their St. Michael 29 Sept So ours to which we add And all Angels 16. Their St. Luke 18

and People with Musick without the least divine Authority for such Song-Praying The Resolver goes oh p. 43. Our Brethron surely will allow of reading the Scriptures as they do viz. Epistles Gospels Psalms To which we say We do surely allow of reading the Scriptures but not as they do especially in those Epistles Gospels and Psalms which are given us in the Liturgy for the following Reasons First Because the Epistles Gospels and Psalms in the Service-Book are mis-translated being taken from the corrupt vulgar Latine-Bible which is so extream faulty and so much complained of by the learned both Protestants and others Secondly Because what they call Epistles and Gospels are so curtal'd and mangled that they become quite another thing than the Evangelists intended in the Gospels or the Apostles in their Epistles altogether ruining the scope and connexions in divers places as may be instanced in numerous particulars if need were Thirdly Because they have been the Inventions of the Popes who have so adulterated Christs pure Worship and Service to patch up their Idolatrous Mass-Service which Gregory called the Great compleated as before fixing and appropriating the Epistles Gospels and Psalms to the Mattins and Even-Songs throughout the Year as the Romish Calendar whose Copy 't is suspected we imitate writes after Fourthly That whilst it is supposed we may be instructed in the Lessons ordered to be read upon the so called Sundays and Holy-Days through the whole Bible they have omitted so much of the Canonical Scriptures as the greatest part of Leviticus Ruth Chronicles Nehemiah Esther Canticles Lamentations Amos Obadiah Jonah Nahum Zephaniah Haggai The second Epistle to the Thessalonians the second and third of John and most part of the Revelation instead of which several parts of Apocryphal Writings are read which are esteemed by the Learned to be fabulous and savouring of the too much adored Vanities of Gentilism Fifthly Because they have omitted all the Original Titles or Inscriptions of the Psalms which are part of the holy Scriptures which have so great a tendency to unfold the mysteries in the Psalms and instead of them retain the Popish Latino Titles printed over our English Psalms Sixthly because of those additions which are made to the Scriptures therein as to the 14 Psalm 3 whole verses which are not in any of the Original Copies and Gloria patri to the Conclusion of several Psalms ordering it to be said at the reading of every Psalm contrary to Deut 4. 2. Prov. 30. 6. Rev. 22. 18. Seventhly because the Epistles and Gospels are ordered to be sung as well as said without the least warrant or direction from the Scriptures Eightly because it is ordered in the Rubrick to sit at the reading of the Epistles and to stand up to bow and scrape and Respond at the Gospel without any warrant or direction from the Scriptures Ninthly because of the disorderly chopping interchanging of Scriptures by way of Colloquy betwixt the Priest and People viz. The Lord be with thee must the Priest say And with thy Spirit must the People say Open our Lips must the Priest say And let our Mouths shew forth thy praise must the People say And bandying so often the Kyrieeleison and Christeeleison Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us betwixt Priest and People for which no Rule of direction from Gods Word but expresly found in the Mass-book How faulty the Liturgy appeared in many of these things to many learned Episcopal Divines is manifest by that Paper which was drawn up Anno 1641. Touching Innovations in Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England together with Considerations upon the Common Prayer and subscribed by Arch-Bishop Vsher Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln Dr. Prideaux after B. of Worcester Dr. Browning after B. of Exeter Dr. Hacket afterwards Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield Dr. Ward Dr. Featly c. and presented to the then Parliament wherein they gave 35 Exceptions against several things in the Liturgy And amongst others against the corrupt Translation of the Epistles and Gospels and Psalms against the Apocryphy enjoyned to be read in the Lessons against singing of Service against adding Gloria Patri to the Psalms against the Hymns taken out of the Mass-Book viz. Benedicite omnia opera c. against Priests Vestments enjoyn'd as were used 2d E. 6. against the sign of the Cross in Baptism which they say might as well be omitted as the Oyl which was heretofore its concomitant afore they went always together against prohibiting times of Marriage c. Another Objection which should have been spoken to before and which we he 〈◊〉 add is this viz. That it may well be supposed that the Nonconformists are very humerous in their groundless and unnecessary scruples whilst they are offended with the Church for that her Ancient and Reverend Practice of Bowing at the Name of Jesus enjoyn'd in the 18 th Canon and for which they have that positive direction and Command Phil. 2. 10. to warrant it It is very true they are indeed offended at that piece they conceive of voluntary Humility and Will-Worship because there is no more ground for Bowing at the mentioning of that Name either from that or any other Scripture than for Crossing our selves when that Name is named For first if it be a Command as supposed universally to bow at the mentioning those Syllables and that Name Jesus then are all both in Heaven Earth and under the Earth Mer Angels and Devils obliged thereto whenever that Name is mentioned be it either by a Wicked mans blasphemously swearing by it or a drunken Priests prophanely muttering it or the mentioning Jesus the Son of Syrach or Bar Jesus the Conjurer And secondly if the supposed Command must be understood to relate to the naming the Name of our Blessed Redeemer it must then be considered which of his Names must be meant because he hath many Names in Scripture as Christ Immanuel Jehovah Wonderful the Everlasting Father Saviour Redeemer Son of God Prince of Peace King of Kings Lord of Lords c. Any of which being much more properly to be understood here than this of Jesus because it is at the name of Jesus viz. some Name of his and not the Name Jesus that is to be bowed to Thirdly Neither can that Name be supposed to be meant here because it relates to a name the Father gave him after his Death Suffering and Exaltation as the words make manifest and therefore not that name Jesus which was given him at his Circumcision before his said Suffering and Exaltation Neither fourthly can this sense be admitted as a literal Command that all must bow the Knee at that Name because at the same time all and every one which make that reverence with the knee are enjoyn'd with their mouths to declare that he is the Lord to the glory of God the Father for they are joyn'd together and why is not one perfor●●d ●s well as the

over all Ecclesiastical affaires as well as Civil was called Pontifex Maximus or high Priest to whom was given Divine Honour and prostration at his Feet And as head of the Church or high Priest had first Fruits Annates Oblations c. payd him and also a Purpurate Synod or Princes in Purple to assist him The Pope of Rome presiding by the Policie of Hell over all Ecclesiastical affaires clayming the Civil also is called Pontifex Maximus or high Priest to whom Divine Honour is given and prostration at his Feet And as Head of the Church and High Priest hath first Fruits Annates and Oblations c. payd him And a Purpurate Synod viz. Cardinals in Purple to assist him Neither Emperor Pope no● King but Christ himself to whom the Father has committed it having purchased it also with his own blood who as High Priest King is the alone Author and Institutor of it's Order Rule and Worship with all things that belong thereto and necessary to be Observed therein To whom Divine Honour is duly payd God blessed for ever the Government upon his Shoulders without any Catholick Vicar to assist Secondly it's Members Secondly it's Members Secondly it's Members The Members and partes of the Church were the partes of the Empire as divided into ten parts Hornes or Kingdoms And those ten Kingdoms distributed into Nations Provinces Diocess and Cures under respective Governors Civil-Military and Ecclesiastical The Members and parts of this Catholick Church are the parts of the Empire as divided into ten Hornes or ten Kingdoms And those ten Kingdoms distributed into Nations Provinces and Diocess and Parishes for the better Administration of Papal Juris diction The Members of the Christian Church are not any Empire Region City Diocess or Province but only such of the faithful or believers in all parts of the World who are called to visible Saintship and orderly put together into distinct Congregations as Christ has directed in the New Testament 3dly The Gods they Worship 3dly The Gods they Worship 3dly in Worshiping the true God only and truly Besides their Supreame God Jupiter or Jove whose name they derived from Jehovah the Governour of Heaven and Earth They had diverse inferior Deities Gods and Goddesses whom they divinely worshiped viz. Diva Vesta Juno or Luna the Queen of Heaven and Mother of God with Saturn Mars Venus Mercury Phaebus Beacchus Vulcan to whom they as their Numens Heroes or Intercessors built Temples erected Alatrs and Statues Dedicated Feasts and called the days by their names They had Doemons Ethereal and Tutular Gods and Goddesses to be applyed to by several Vocations Country's Cities Families Orders Sick Persons As Divus Neptunus for Mariners Divus pan for Shepherds Divus Pales for Husbandmen Diva Flora for the Curtisan Diva Diana for the Huntsmen Divus Esculapius for the Physitian Divus Bacchus for the Good fellow Divus Mercurius for Tradsmen They had gods for every Family Country City Decease as Cant sicat Era c. Besides in the Pontifex Maximus and Synod was placed the right of Apotheosis or God making viz. to create and Inrole some deceased worthy in the number of the Gods to whom Temples Altars Orders and Statues were appointed and Festivals in their names celebrated Besides the Supreame God Jehovah the Governour of Heaven and Earth they pretend to Worship they have diverse inferior Deities Gods and Goddesses whom they divinely Worship viz. Diva or Sancta Maria the Queen of Heaven and Mother of God with Divus Petrus St. Paul St. John St. Thomas St. Stephen St. Andrew c. To whom they as their Numens or Intercessors build Temples erect Altars dedicate Feasts paying also so much reverance to the Pagan Gods as to keep up their Names in the Day 's of the Week viz. Sunday Munday Tusday Wedensday Thursday Fryday Saterday They have also Tutular and Ethereal Gods and Goddesses to be applyed to by several Vocations Countrys Citys Families Orders Sick-Persons as Divus or St. Nicolas for the Mariner St. Windoline for the Shepherd St. John Baptist for the Husbandmen St. Magdaline for the Curtisan St. Hubart for the Huntsman St. Crispian for the Shoomaker c. The City Country Family and Physick Gods are innumerable St. George for England St. Denis for France St. Mark for Venice c. Gods almost for every Disease Besides the God making power that is in the Pope and Cardinals to canonize what deceased worthy they please and to appoint them Temples Altars Orders Festivals Though there be that are called Gods whether in Heaven or in Earth as there be Gods many and Lords many But to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him And one Lord Jesus by whom are all things and we by him 1 Cor. 5. 6. Make no mention of the names of other Gods neither let it be heard out of thy Mouth Ex. 23. 13. Thou snalt have no other Gods besides me thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaveu above or Earth beneath Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a Jealous God Ex. 20. 4 5. What agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols For ye are the Temple of the living God Wherefore come out from amongst them and be ye seperate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing c. The things which the Gentles Sacrifice they Sacrifice to Devils and not to God and I would not that you should have Fellowship with Devils 1 Cor. 10. 20. Rev. 18. 4. 2 Cor. 6. 16. 4thly The places of their Worship 4dly The places of their Worship 4dly In it's Worship respecting place Temples or Fanes both rich and magnificent they built in the names and dedicated to the honour of their Gods As the Temple of Jupiter the Capital of Rome was dedicated to him Vesta the Q. of Heaven and Mother of God had a Temple and Nunnery dedicated to her And so had all the rest of the Gods Saturn Mars Venus Diana Minerva Neptune Apollo c. Yea one to all the gods called PANTHEON They build their Temples East and West Worshiping towards the East By their Auguri and Auruspices With many Frayers Ceremonies and Solemnitys they consecrated first the Ground and then the Temple upon which it was built Altars were erected in them and sumptiously adorned and Statues placed in them with lighted Candels which they Worshiped A Feast of Dedicaiton was Annualy kept to the Honour of the Daemon the Temple was dedicated to which after their Rligious Rites were over was spent in Revelling and Jollity And This as Gods House they pay'd great Reverence to They Enjoy'd the Temples of the Heathen only new consecrated and dedicated them to their own Gods to whom they gave new Nams at their Christnings As St. Saviours for Jupiters St. Mary's for Vestas Temple And so for the rest of their Gods St. Peters for Apollos

St. Paul for the Temple of Diana so it was at London St. Nicolas for Neptunes And all Saints for PANTHEON They build new Temples East and West and Worship as the Heathens did towards the East And do by their Priests consecrate first the Ground Then the Temple upon which it stands Altars are erected in them and sumptiously adorned and Statues placed on them with lighted Candels which they Worship a Feast of Dedication is annually kept to the Honour of the Saint the Temple is consecrated to which is spent with Revelling and Jollity And this as Gods House they pay great Reverence to There having been no conse crated place or holy Ground since the dissolution of the Temple by Gods appointment to build Temples or holy places for Worship The true Worshipers who worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth are truly his Chnrch and House where ever they meet be it in Wood Field House or Barne so saith the Apostle with all who in every place call upon the Lord Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. Whose House are ye Heb. 3. 8. The most high dwelling not with Temples made with Hands as saith the Prophet What House will ye build me Or what is the place of my Rest Who Filles Heaven and Earth Act. 7. 48 49. No Altars and Candels Worshiping East and West or Feasts of Dedications in Christs Church being all Pagan and Papal inventions 5ly The times of their Worship 5dly The times of their Worship 5thly In respect to the time of Worship They divided their days into Fasti feast days Profaesti Working days and Intercisi hafe holy days The feast days they dedicated in the Names and to the Honour They divided their days into Feasts Fasts Vigils and Working days as their Kalender mentions their Feasts dedicated in the Names the And to the honour of The firist day of the Week is the Christians Sabbath and the only standing time for Rest and Worship to be Observed Holy unto the Lord The other six days being appointed of their Gods werev ery many some of their Capital Feasts were these viz. Their Saturnalia kept several days together in December with Eul-game Mrs. of Misrule Mascarading and all Debocheries adorning their Temples and Houses with green Leaves and Boughs The Epiphony from the appearing of their Gods Their Proserpinalia or Feasts of Candles In February Their Palelia or Shepherds Feast on Midsumer-day Their Florialia on May-day with great Jollity by the young People of both sexes scattering Boughs and Flowers and Dancing about May-poles Their Ambervalia or Procession when they begged a Blessing on their Gods upon their Fields and Fruits The Feast Easter to that Goddess in April They had their Bacchanalia their Ceralia their Venalia their Panathenea a Feast to all their Gods Canonical houres for Sacrifice and Devotion and a Jubile or yeare of Rest their Saints or Gods are very many some of their Capital Feasts are these viz. Christmas their Saturnalia Observed directly both in time and manner as theres was with Eule-games Mrs. of Misrule Mascarad's Debocheries adorning their Houses and Temples with green Leaves and Boughs The Epiphony Feast as ther 's Also Candlemas the purification of the Virgin Mary In February as their Proserpinalia or Candle Feast Ther St. John Baptist on Midsomer-day as their Palelia Also Philip and Jacob on May-day kept as their Floras Feast time and manner Also procession or Perambulation in Rogation Week time and manner with their Ambervalia Also the Feast of Easter time name and manner They have their Whitsonales for their Bacchanalia Their Allsaints for their Panathenea Canonical houres for Service and a year of Jubile for Rest for Labour As the forth Commandment Orders viz. Remember to keep Holy the Seventh Day Six Days shalt thou Labour and do all thy Work The Pope that changer of times saith Thou shalt Labour but Three or Four Days the rest are his Holy days No set times either for Feasts Fasts or Vigils are appointed by Christ which are only to be Observed as accasion is Administred All their Holy days and Festivals celeberated in Honour of the Papal and Pagan Gods Numens or Daemons are an abomination to the Lord and a great oppression to the Nations God requiring but a 7th part of time for his publick Worship and Service and they exact half if not two Thirds of it for the Worship and Sevice of their Idols 6thly Their Priesthood 6thly Their Priesthood 6thly In it's Ministry They had Superior Priests viz. Flamins and Arch-flamins for Sacerdotall service in their Provinces and Diocess and Inferior Priests distinguished by dignify'd names Tonsures Orders Habits the dignifyed Priests were those who attended on the Capitall Temples as the proper Priests of Jupiter Appollo Minerva Vesta Diana Venus Cybel some of which were called Dialia Martialia Querinalia Augures Saliens Fecialls Their Priests were either superior viz. Bishops and Arch-Bishops for Sacerdotall service in Provinces and Diocess or Inferior distingushed by dignifyed Names Tonsures Orders Habits the dignify'd clergy were those who attended the Capitall or Cathedrall Churches as Deans Chaptrs Prebends Arch Deacons And the more inferior Priests who have care of Sacred Celebrations in the cures or Parishes calledi Cureats Parsons In Christ Church there are only two sorts of Offices and Officers by his New Testament appointment viz. Elders and Deacons the Elders to administer Ordinances and Govern the Church     And Deacons to make Provision for to visit and take care of the Poor none of the Minestry distinguished from the Layety by Habits or Tonsuers which are all Pagan and Papal Inventions and Abominations The prohibition of And more inferior Priests who had the care of the sacred Celebrations in the cures called Curiones there were proper Habits for all the Priesthood and particular Vestments for their Divine Service viz. Albes Tunicles Amicts they had Tonsures and shavings so the Priests of Isis Diana Jupiter divers orders of Priests whereof most Caelebate to whom Marriage was prohibited as the Priests of Vesta Minerva Appollo and those of Cybil whowere castrated Elected and concecra ted according to the Ritual of Numa and put in to their cures by the Pontifex maintained according to their Ecclesiastical constitution the Pontifs by Annates Oblations and the Priests by Benesices Offerings Obsequies c. Vicars Deacons answearing their Curiones they have proper Habits for the Clergy and particular Vestments for their holy ministrations viz. Surplices or Albes Chasubles or Tunicles Vailes or Amicts to which they add Coaps Ephods Miniples Zones c. They have Tonsuers or Shaveings of their Orders and most whereof Caelebiate to whome marriage is forbiden Elected and consecrated according to the Popes canons and put into their Cures by his Authority maintained according to their Ecclesiastical customes the Popes by A●nates Oblations c. The Priests by Benefices Offerings Oblations Obseques c. Marriage being a Doct●●ne of Devils Elected and Consecrated according to

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