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A50383	Unity restor'd to the Church of England by John Mayer.	Mayer, John, 1583-1664.	1661 (1661)	Wing M1426; ESTC R28824	26,506	53

that Dungeon where there is utter darkness there to remain in wailing and gnashing of teeth for evermore and upon serious and hearty repenrance to release the sinner again from this grievous judgement if he be humbled and professeth his penitency without delay and if we believe our Lord Jesus that which is done herein by the Bishop according to his direction is done by God For what ye bind saith he upon earth Math. 18. shall be bound in heaven and what ye loose shall be loosed in heaven most certainly As for any punishment corporall or pecuniary inflicting it is proper to him that bears the Sword Rom. 13. and a Sword-man an Apostle or Bishop must not be as our Saviour shewed when he gave Peter a check for drawing his Sword and smiting For he that smiteth with the sword shall perish by the sword that is he who is sent out to preach peace Fifthly touching the cause of excommunicating although this power hath been heretofore used for not appearing at the Bishops Court when he hath been summoned without any regard to the Calling or Righteousness of the man or for money or to bring in money which was an abuse intollerable yet there is no warrant by the Word of God to deliver over to Satan for any cause but scandalous living or blasphemous Heresie but for either of these causes there is as appeareth 1 Cor. 5. by the Apostles writing to have the incestuous person delivered over to Satan till he repented and to have all scandalous brethren Adulterers Railers Drunkards c. put from amongst them although Erastus denieth this to be a ground for excommunicating or putting the scandalous liver from the holy Communion for although but a Physitian he would seem to have so much skill in Divinity as to assert that none although most wicked who hold the true faith may lawfully be put from it because none such were kept from the Passeover but only such as were legally unclean 〈…〉 which uncleanness is now ceased therefore saith he none are now to be accounted unclean who are believers as though if legal uncleanness which was much lesser makes one unclean 〈…〉 but the uncleanness which is by sin doth not much more whenas that uncleanness which was only outward of this extending to the very conscience witness the Apostles saying to the unclean all things are unclean yea the very conscience is defiled and this is not clensed but by the bloud of Christ that by the bloud of buls goats For not keeping from the Passover the notoriously wicked by express Precept there may be this Reason yielded the keeping of the Passover was but a legal Ceremony and was to be eaten by all that were circumcised although not circumcised yet in heart and therefore neither Children nor Fools were debarred therefrom nor wicked livers it sufficed that they who did eat hereof were not legally unclean but the Lords Supper is so holy and separate from prophane use that whoso eateth and drinketh of it unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself and this he doth whosoever doth not first examine himself and finding what a grievous sinner he hath been sorrows not therefore with Godly sorrow and confesseth it not neither is converted therefrom And if it be so how can they that rule in the Church but be accessary to their sin whom they know to be unworthy but put them not from participating of this holy Ordinance till that by repentance and promise of Reformation they be sanctified that so holy a thing may not be given but to the holy at the least so far forth as may be gathered from their own mouths although we cannot but admit of some unworthy whose wickedness is conceal'd but for the commonly known to be prophane or notoriously wicked even the Heathen abhorred from having them come to their sacrifices for one was at such times set to cry thus Procul procul este prophani for excommunicating blasphemous Hereticks we have S. Paul for our example who saith 1 Tim. 1.2 he delivered Hymeneus and Alexander to Satan that they might learn not to blaspheme that is for a chastisement of the blasphemous Heresies which they held that they might be made to recant as is the excommunicating of notorious Offenders that being by Satan terrified who is now let loose upon them they may be made to repent and although they suffer in their bodies this have their souls saved at the last day for some then being excommunicated were grievously handled in their bodies by Satan whereby they were made to know how cruelly they should be tormented in the life to come if they were not made thereby to repent as we may gather that the incestuous person at Corinth was for that he was so terrified after his excommunication 2 Cor. 2. that he was ready to be swallowed up of despair 6. Touching more or fewer Bishops making in this Kingdome It is not so convenient that their Diocesses should be so large as they have been because that although in former Ages it might be necessary when the land was not so populous to enlarge the limits of Bishopricks laying many more Towns together and sometime two Counties to make one Bishoprick and able Shepherds of whom Bishops might be made were more rare yet now thanks be to God Christian people having far more encreased in Cities Townes and Villages and Pastors of great ability both to preach and govern it were much more convenient that there should be more Bishops made in this Land not onely one to a City and the Villages circumjacent but to each City-like Town most Diocesses in England as now they are constituted being too great a burthen to their Bishops to bear as Moses sometime complained of the burthen of so numerous a Nation laid upon him alone and therefore desired the help of more Rulers and had by the Lord added unto him 72 whereby he and the people were more eased and the better enabled to do the work for which they were raised up As Diocesses now are some belonging to their Charge are so far off that they cannot know or ever hear their Bishop preach although he continueth amongst them many yeares neither can he know all the Clergy or their worthiness or unworthiness to encourage or reprove them according to their deserts and what a trouble and weariness is it to the people to be forced to travel some of them 30 or 40 miles to have their Causes heard and to be at the charge to retain Proctors to plead for them yea and sometimes Rectores Ecclesiae also but if more Diocesses should be made whence should means be raised to maintain so many Bishops Even out of the Bishopricks that now are and Deanaries and Prebendaries of which what use is there in the Church of Christ and of which Antiquity was utterly ignorant If it would please God to move the hearts of the Kings Majesty and the right Honorable and worthy Members

hath the honor of Knight hood conferred upon him so he that hath the honour of a Doctor conferred upon him by the Vice-Chancellor of the University kneeleth before him to be admitted to it and a Son before his Father at receiving his Blessing and why then may not a Christian before Christ his Sovereign Lord offering himself unto him to be received by the hand of his Minister his Representative If the practice of the Apostles at the Institution were obligatory to all Christians Cor. 11. St. Paul in commemorating the Institution would certainly have made mention of it as well as of other circumstances but because he doth not it is apparent that we are not bound to hold us to the same gesture and indeed that the Gesture is not material appeareth for that although at the Institution of the Passeover instead whereof the Lords Supper was ordained standing was appointed yet Christ with his Disciples did not eat it standing but sitting If it be objected against kneeling that is an appearance of evil that is of Artolatria the worshipping of the bread of Christs body held in the hands of the Priest believed by many to be no bread now but the Lords body who is to be worshipped Ans in such as believe so it is indeed Artolatria that is Idolatry but for so much as we do not believe it for substance to be any other than bread till sanctified to an holy use and Christs body only to such as believe it to be so to them when they have received it nourishing them to eternall life In our kneeling only for reverence to the Lord when we receive it cannot carry a shew of Idolatry although if when it is carried about as in the Church of Rome They that fall down upon their knees to it cannot but be guilty of this foul sin whether they believe it to be Christ or not Kneeling therefore in recieving by those that are of the same Faith with us cannot be justly accepted against yet because some weak ones will be scandalized hereby it may be received standing as it is in some Reformed Churches but sitting at the Lords Table is most undecent and unmannerly After the Communion followeth that Service which is to be used in Baptising Of baptism in which nothing hath been by the most scrupulous excepted against but against the requiring God-fathers and God-mothers to answer for them and in such words as they are biden to do and against signing with the sign of the Crosse for the first that there should be Sureties for Infants that cannot yet speak for themselves if they be wise and Godly and make conscience to do their indeavour when the Children are grown to Understanding that they may be taught and stirred up to profess and promise for themselvs what hath bin promised in their behalf it cannot but be acknow ledged to be good Christian care of the Church whereby it is thus provided But the questions asked of them would be a little altered thus First Do ye believe in God the Father Almighty c. and not doest thou as if the question were directed to the Child for this is by many counted ridiculous Secondly Do ye desire to have this Child Baptized in this Faith Thirdly Do ye come to undertake as much as in you shall lye that this Child shall forsake the Devil c. The answer to this last being we do thus undertake all these things for if the Children of believing Parents ought to be Baptized as all the Orthodox have ever held truly there is great need that some faithfull persons should undertake for them as hath been said and help what they can towards the Childrens doing so as is promised till they by learning the Catechisme come to answer for themselves Neither was the name of Anabaptists heard of for the space of 1500 years and upward where John Leyden an ambitious Taylor in the City of Munster in Germany aspired by such means after making himself a King as he did and by other abominable opinions which he then broached And for the baptizing of Infants we have this convincing reason grounded upon the word of God that if Infants under the N. T. who come of Gods people that professe the true faith ought not to be baptized there is no Sanctifying Ordinance for them and they are in worse case than the Infants of the Jews because they had Circumcision whereby they were sanctified and delivered from the danger of death to which they were by nature subject but being circumcised they were saved if they died in their Infancy but the Children of Christians should be altogether without any sanctifying Ordinance and so continue Children of wrath as all are by nature and if they die before they be baptized in danger of being cut off John 3.5 for unlesse one be born again of water and the Holy Ghost he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven 1 Peter 3.19 and St. Peter saith that baptism is as Noah's Ark that saveth and how absurd is it to say that none can be saved till they they be grown up and attain to actual Faith for to say they ought not to be baptized til then is in effect to say so Now that Children born under the N. T. are not in a worse but a better case than they under the Old appeareth by this that we have now a better Mediator and a better High-priest and a more glorious Ministry for then Moses was the Mediator Aaron the High Priest and Moses had his face covered when he spake to the people but now the Son of God is Mediator and High Priest and layeth Heaven open more plainly by his Ministry and the way for Parents and Children to attain unto it viz. by baptism after that the Parent believeth administred both to him and them If this were not so what comfort could believing Parents have although they themselves were baptized but their children not for fear of their dying unbaptized and unsanctified for their children are as dear to them as their own souls If any shall think that they are sanctified by the faith of their Parent because it is said to believers at Corinth In case but that one Parent were a Believer otherwise your Children were unclean but now they are holy It is to be understood that the Apostle said so because that immediately after the Parent was baptized the children were baptized also and this is more than probable because Origen who lived about an 200 saith that it was held to be a Tradition of the Apostles that Infants ought to be baptized Secondly The Crosse touching the Crosse in baptism although it hath been very anciently used and God hath sometimes wrought miraculously thereby for the confirmation of the Faith as Chrysostom saith yet for so much as it hath been in time of Popery turned into an Idol by being adored and trusted in Godly zeal cannot indure it any longer but as Hezekiah that