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A56184	A moderate, seasonable apology for indulging just Christian liberty to truly tender consciences, conforming to the publike liturgy in not bowing at, or to the name of Jesus, and not kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper, according to His Majesties most gracious declaration to all his loving subjects concerning ecclesiastical affairs ... / by William Prynne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing P4011; ESTC R5505	132,513	174

if it be a Duty enjoyned them by this text at every recital hearing or sight of it why doe they not account it a dangerous mortal sin to omit or carelesly and superficiously to perform it which few have ever deemed it if any till of late Fourthly if it be a duty of the text that every knee should bow at the naming of Jesus why do most of them only use to put off their caps at or to it when recited and not to bow their knees why do they more frequently only nod or bow their heads unto it th●n their knees or only one knee which men for the most part do not both which few but women practise who mak● cou●tesies at it since the text requires every knee therefore both their knees should ●ow not one on●y Fifthly why do they duck and bow their bodies or head● at the naming of it as many Cathedralists Priests and others do even when they are actually kneeling on their knee● and praying to God and Ch●ist Jesus himself yea why give they mo●e reverence honour to the name Je●us a●one than to the very Person Majestie of God or Jesus Christ him●elf For when as they are wo●shipping God and Jesus Christ on their knees in their most ●erious prayers and humblest lowliest postures of body even then at every naming of the word Jesus to bend or bow their heads and bodies particularly in a more special lowlier manner than before only because this name Jesus is mentioned in the Prayer what is it but to pre●erie honour adore his bare name Jesus before his Person Deity and God the Father himself and to advance the very name sound syllables of Jesus above his Person to whom they would not have thus so frequently lowly and seriously bowed afresh had not this name Jesus been mentioned though their minds thoughts were or should be immediately fixed on God and him and their knees bodies bowed down to them in Prayer before If this be not superstition will-worship or worse let their own Consciences and Reasons who are guilty of this practise judge Sixthly if bowing at the name Jesus be a duty of this text I would willingly know why the Apostles Fathers and P●imitive Ch●istian for above one thousand years after Christ were utterly ignorant of this duty of which there is no foot-steps no mention in Antiquity why Pope Iohn the 20th or rather the 22th above one thousand years after Christ should be the fi●st that ever set this Ceremony on foot and that with an indulgence of 20. years pardon for every enclining of the head not of the knee at the name of Jesus why no antient no modern Commentators on this text but Papists Jesuits before Bp. Andrews could find out this duty in and acquaint us with it as a thing therein required VVhy no Protestant Churches in forein parts can yet find out or practise this duty VVhy few but Papist● but Jesuits have formerly pleaded for it till this our present age VVhy few but Popes or Popish Councils and Authors have hithe● to pressed it Why there is a special Prayer for the bowers at it inserted into the Masse of the name Iesus for which name the Papists have not only a solemn double Feast day on the 7th of August stiled Festum dulcissimi nominis Iesu but also a special Masse called Horae nominis Iesu The Howers or Masse of the name Jesus Seventhly if it be a duty of the text why then have Protestant Churches and Writers oppugned it from time to time as a Popish Superstition and Innovation as the Rhemists and Stengelius acknowledge why then do Calvin and Marloret both in their Commentaries on the text and Paraeus Piscator with others declaim thus against the Sorbonists The Sorbon Sophisters are more than ridiculous who collect out of this pres●nt place that the knee must be bowed as oft as the name Iesus is pronounced as if it were a magick word or spell which hath all its efficacy included in its sound why doth our Learned Dr. Whitaker tax William Raynolds the Rhemist with his Popish Companions of Rhemes for abusing this text of the Philippians in straining this Ceremony from it which he expresly censures as Superstitious which saith he may breed a more dangerous error than any it can remove to wit that Iesus is better than Christ which is wicked to imagine Yea why do Thomas Beacon Dr. Fulk Dr. Willet Bishop B●bi●●●on Dr. Airay and Mr. Cartwright on and ●rom this ●ext condemn and write against the Papists for using this ge●●●lection as no wayes warra●ted or commanded by it Why do they censure the bowing at this Name only as Popish Superstitious Idolatrous in th● Papists and making an apparent di●parity between the Three sacred Persons of the Trinity which are Co-equal by giving more honour to the second Person and his very name Iesus than to the first and third and their most sacred names or than to the other names of Iesus as Emanuell Saviour Christ Messias Son of God and the like whose Judgements that you may the better descern in this particular I shall verbatim transcribe reciting both the Papists words and their answers to them as I find them printed in their works I shall begin with Mr. Thomas Cartwright who brings in the Rhemists writing thus against the Protestants They by the like wickednesse charge the faithfull people for capping or kneeing when they hear the name of Jesus as though they worshipped not our Lord God therein but the syllables or letters or other material Elements whereof the word written or spoken consisteth and all this by Sophistications to draw the people from due honour and devotion towards Christ Jesus which is Sathans drift by putting scruples into poor simple mens minds about his Sacraments his Saints his Crosse his name his image and such like to abolish all true religion out of the world and to make them plain Atheists But the Church knoweth Satans cogitations and therefore by the Scriptures and reason warranteth and teacheth all her Children to do reverence whensoever Iesus is named because Catholicks do not honour these things nor count them holy for their matter colour sound and syllables but for respect and relation they have to our Saviour bringing us to the remembrance and apprehension of Christ by sight hearing or use of the same signes else why make we not reverence at the name of Iesus the Son of Syrach as well as of Iesus Christ. And it is a pittyfull case to see these profane subtilties of Heretiques to take place in religion which were ridiculous in all other trade of life When we hear our Prince or Soveraign named we may without these scruples do obeisance but toward Christ it must be superstitious Thus the Rhemists To whom Mr. Cartwright thus replies at the special instance of Sir Francis Walsingham and other Lords of Queen Elizabeths Privy Counsel

firmaretur A passage which may happily imply that in those times men did use to bow their Heads not Knees to Jesus Christ the King of Kings who bowed his Head for them But this was not as I take it at every recital of his name Jesus in the Epistle Gosple Masse Sermons or Prayers in the Church of which there is not a sylable in this Author but at Gloria Patri the lifting up of the Hoas● in time of the Masse or at the passing by of the sign of the Crosse or Host in procession as the sence and words import Sanctus Franciscus St. Francis the Arch-Freer who lived about the year 1230. in his Litera ad Sacerdotes hath this ensuing Clause Salutem in eo qui redemit lavit not in sanguine suo Cujus nomen audientes adorate eum cum timore et reverentia proni in terra Dominus Iesus Christus altissimus filius nomen illi qui est benedictus in secula Amen Which implyes an Injunction from this Arch-Freer St. Francis to those of his Order for adoration of the Lord Jesus Christ at that time by bowing their Heads with fear and reverence to the ground when these his Names were mentioned all together Freer David de Augusta who flourished about the year 1240. De 7. Processibus religiosi cap. 11. writes thus Sunt exteriores caeremoniales observantiae ut inclinationes genuflectiones in horis pulsationes omnes gesticulationes quibus Claustrales utuntur in divino offi●io vel aliis quibus saepe minus virtuosi majorem vim faciunt quam aliqui perfecti magis devoti Which seems to imply that Monks in those daies for of them he writes did use duckings and gen●flections either to the Host the Crucifix the Altar and it may be to the name of Jesus though not particularly expressed in which Ceremonies the less vertuous saith he were for the most part more devout than the most religious Pope Vrban the 4th about the year 1262. as some report gave an indulgence of 30. daies to all confessed and holy contrite Persons who devoutly bowed to the Name of the Lord Iesus These are the only passages I find in all Antiquity before the Councill of Lions which gave any probable colour to the use or practise of this Ceremony which was never established in the Church till Pope Gregory the 10th his Papacy to whom most ascribe its very Original who in the Popish Council of Lions in the year 1273. made this Decree Decet domum Domini sanctitudo decet ut cujus in pace factus est locus ejus cultus sit cum debita veneratione pacificus Sit it aque ad Ecclesias humilis devotus ingressus sit in iis qui●ta conversatio Deo grata inspicientibus placida quae considerantes non solum instruat sed reficiat Convenientes ibidem nomen illud quod est super omne nomen a quo aliud sub coelo 〈◊〉 datum hominibus in quo salvos fieri credentes oport●●● nomen videlicet Jesu Christi qui salvum faciet populum suum a peccatis eorum exhibitione reverentiae specialis attollant quod generaliter scribitur ut innomine Jesu omne genu flectatur singuli singulariter in seipsis implentes praecipuè dum aguntur Missarum sacra mysteria gloriosum illud nomen quandocunque recolitur flectant gen●a cordis sui quod vel capitis inclinatione testentur This is the highest Antiquity that any Papist or Iesuito hath hitherto found out to justifie their bowing at or to the name of Jesus Yet this Constitution binds men onely to bow the knees of their hearts not of their bodies at the naming of Jesus and of Christ too and that especially whiles the Masse is acting which bowing of the heart they must testifie by the inclination of their heads not bowing of their knees After this Pope Iohn the 22. about the year 1330. to induce men to the practise of this Popish Ceremony did as Salmeron the Jesuite records grant 200. dayes of true indulgence to all who should bend their knees or incline their heads or knock their breasts to or at the name of Iesu● Therefore it was then no received duty of the Text this Pope enducing the People to use it only to gain his Indulgences Anno 1350. Robert Holc●t our Popish Schoolman in his Lectures upon the Book of Wisedom writes thus of this Name and Ceremony S●c●ndum nomen tuum Deus sic laus tu● in fines terrae Hoc nomen est Iesus de quo Math. Vocabis nomen ejus Jesus ipse enim s●lvum faciet populum suum a peccatis eorum Solent enim multum amantes de personis amatis facere cantilenas eorum nomina exprimendo Igitur de hoc nomine Iesu idem faciamus●●●xta illud Psalmi Laudabo nomen Domini cum cantico mag●●●●abo ●um laude Est igitur notandum quod illud nomen est nomen honoris excellentiae Phil. 2. dedit ei nomen quod e●t super omne nomen ut IN nomine Jesu omne genu flectetur co●lestium terrestrium infernorum Vnde secundum sacros Canones quando hoc nom●n I●sus pro●ertur in Ecclesia omnis Christianus inclinari docetur cum capite quamvis tàm hoc quàm multa alia spiritualia in quibus lucrum divitiarum non consistit a Praelatis hujus temporis negliguntur Whence it is apparent 1. That he deemed this Ceremon● no duty of the Text but a thing only injoyned by the Canons forecited 2ly That this Ceremony though injoyned by Canon was yet wholly neglected and not used nor urged by the Popish Prelates of his Age why then should any Protestant Bishops presse it now 3ly That in those times men were only required to bow their Heads not knees at the naming of Jesus a thing not prescribed by this Text of Phil. 2. which speaks only of the knee 4ly That Lord God are the Names mentioned Ps. 48.10 not Iesus Since he about the year 1430. one Bernardinus of Sennes a Franciscan Freer and a Popish Canonized Saint a great lover and admirer of the name Jesus did earnestly exhort the People in all his Sermons and publick exhortations especially in his 49. Sermon now in print De Glorioso nomine Iesu Christi wherein he attributes what ever the Scripture speaks of Christ himself to his very name Iesus as Stengelius with others since have done to make an Idol of it That they would give devotion bowing and reverence to the name of Jesus which is above every name in which every knee doth bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth neither is there any oth●r name under heaven given to men in which they can be saved This Supe●stitious Popish Fryer in his 49. Sermon w●ites That the name of Jesus was adored and worshiped of all Creatures that