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A96061	A century of reasons for subscription and obedience to the laws and government of the Church of England, both ecclesiastical and civil. With reasons against the covenant Justifi'd by scripture, confirmed by the laws of the kingdom, the right and power of kings, ecclesiastical and human authorities, with an harmony of confessions. [T]o which is annexed the office and charge belonging to the overseers of the poor, &c. [By] W. Wasse school-master in Little Britain near unto Christ-church.	Wasse, William.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1030A; ESTC R231143	60,180	186

A CENTURY OF REASONS For Subscription and Obedience to the Laws and Government of the Church of England both ECCLESIASTICAL and CIVIL With Reasons against the COVENANT Justifi'd by Scripture Confirmed by the Laws of the Kingdom the Right and Power of Kings Ecclesiastical and Human Authorities with an Harmony of Confessions ●o which is annexed the Office and Charge belonging to the Overseers of the Poor c. Rex solo Deo minor caeteris omnibus major Tertul. Who can lay his hands upon the Lords Annointed and be guiltless 1 Sam. 26.9 W. Wasse School-master in Little Britain near unto Christ-church London Printed by W.W. for R.H. at the Bible in Heart in Little Britain 1663. To the most High and Mighty Monarch CHARLS the II. By the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the True Catholick and Antient Faith c. Religious Renowned and most Gracious King THis Small Work that chiefly concerns Kings and perswadeth to Obedience unto them with all Humility and Submission I one of your meanest Subjects present unto your Sacred Majesty in whom Courtesie and Clemency with Authority are transcendently Eminent of whom O King of Peace I cannot but with the many ten-thousands of your Loyal and Royal hearted Subjects give in my Test that Your Sacred Majesty is not onely as David but as Solomon yea the Solomon of the world who having Reconciled Three Kingdoms to Your self at Home and most Nations of the World Abroad have also tied Peace to Your Sacred Person These Transcendent All-concluding and All-commanding Virtues fill Your Loyal and Royal Subjects hearts with confidence that our Eyes shall see in Your Peaceable days God's House finished and the Temples built again that have been destroyed And the rather have we this confidence sith that Your Royal Majesty hath broken down the Partition Wall of Rites and Ceremonies in the Church of England and in the Church of Scotland and now of Two made One And as it hath been usual to Unite Nations and common to call United Nations by one Name and in them to Establish but one Form of Government Ecclesiastical and Civil even so hath Your Sacred Majesty done whereby the Black Monarchy of the Prince of Darkness is now cast down for ever Most Serene and Powerful Prince the attractive Beauty of Your Government draws the very Hearts and Souls of Your Loyal and Royal hearted Subjects not onely to pay unto You what is due but also by a Practicable Example to go before others in Obedience for want of which many years past by and gone through unduely untempered Zeal multitudes of Your Subjects denied the Magistrates of their duty and Your Sacred Majesty the Head of all Government By means whereof for some small Differences a few Error-searching Singulars out-faceing and opposing Ever-famous Plurals uncharitably first set the House of God on fire and afterwards caused a General Conflagration throughout all Your Majesty's Dominions which without Art-exceeding Deploration cannot be remembred Therefore there is great reason why Your Sacred Majesty should beware of yielding hasty belief to the Robes of Sanctimony By their works you shall know them Most Dread Soveraign By this dimme Light of a small Candle I am come at Noon-day to give what Light I am able unto the dark corners where the Sun nor the Moon nor the Stars as yet appear notwithstanding the Eye-dazling lustre of them in the Firmament of our Church and State the Light of the least of them being able to guide the Wayless Traveller in the darkest night Great and Mighty King the Great God that hath made You thus Great and set You up the Oracle of Kings the Miracle of Ages and made You to Your Enemies as a Rock invincible against which they have and for ever shall dash themselves in pieces the same Great God give You the Conquest of all our Hearts and Wills that there may be an Harmony and Agreement of Soul and Spirit amongst all Your Subjects from Dan to Beersheba and that this entire Realm of Great Britain English Scottish and Welch now being framed into one happy Soveraignty it is the humble Prayer prostrate upon the knees of my heart that the Almighty Three in One would bring us to be perfectly One Your Majesty's Most Humble Loyal and Obedient Subject W. WASSE To the Right Reverend Father in God GILBERT By the Divine Providence Lord B p of LONDON Reverend Father in God THere is but one thing in the World hath moved me to this Publick Addressing my self unto Your Lordship and it is this The Misrepresentation of me and my Judgment concerning the Established Government of the Church of England by the False Government and the No-Government Faction and this onely occasioned from my Childish Non-conformity through their Instructions for which I humbly beg pardon for I did it ignorantly and since Years have taught me wisdom with the reasons which prove our Government Holy Just and Good as to the ends thereof being convinced as in duty bound and as an account of my Obedience which I owe I do in all Humility present unto your Lordship the Reasons of my Conformity Beseeching the. Merciful God and our Heavenly Father to increase his Graces more and more upon You to his Glory the Churches Freedom from Error and Heresie and Your Everlasting Comfort Your Lordship 's poor Beadsman to be commanded W. WASSE TO THE Right Honourable Sir John Robinson Knight and Baronet Lieutenant of his Majestie 's Tower of London and Lord Maior of the Honourable City of London AND To the Right Worshipfull Sir Richard Brown Knight and Baronet one of his Majestie 's Justices of the Peace and Major General of the same Right Honourable and Right Worshipfull IT is not the first nor second time I have Affected to make known the Uprightness of my Heart towards his Sacred Majestie 's Kingly Power the Ecclesiastical and Civil Government of the Church of England established in all his Majestie 's Dominions But never untill this time could I Effect it and I hope seasonably when the Grounds and Reasons are considered which with all Humility I offer in a particular manner unto Your Lordship and Worship and the rather unto you than to any other Citizens in as much as ye were so eminently Instrumental in the Restauration of his Sacred Majesty and since in His Preservation From whom I have received sufficient cause to give Publick testimony of my thankfull Heart which the whole Kingdome also hath and to whom I worthily Devote my Self who next under God and His Sacred Majesty have preserved me with the Loyal ten-thousands from Ruine and Destruction and unto whom the Power and Possession of my Person belongs and therefore none more meet than Your Lordship and Worship to whom I might after the retirement to my Books commit the Care of this small Compiled work which asserteth the Duty of Subjects unto Kingly Power Ecclesiastical and Civil Government especially the Duty

for the enabling of Citations Suspensions Excommunications or other Censures of the Church And that it is not necessary that Summons Citations or other Processes Ecclesiastical in the said Courts or Institutions or Inductions to Benefices or Correction of Ecclesiastical Offences by Censure in those Courts be in the King 's Name or with the Style of the King or under the King 's Seal or that their Seals of Office have in them the King 's Arms. And that the Statute of Primo Edwardi Sexti cap. 2. which Enacted the contrary is not now in force We are also of Opinion that the Bishops Arch-deacons and other Ecclesiastical Persons may keep their Visitations as usually they have done without Commission under the Great Seal of England so to do John Bramstone John Finch Humphrey Davenport William Jones John Dinham Richard Hutton George Croke Thomas Trevor George Vernor Robert Berkley Francis Crawley Richard Weston The Right Reverend Father in God George Lord Bishop of London His Advertisment To all and every the Ministers Church-wardens and Side-men within the City Suburbs and Diocess of London WHereas I am daily advertised by the relations of many honest and religious persons of a General Misbehaviour in most Churches in and about the City of London in time of Divine Service Men and Boys sitting then cover'd with their Hats on their heads without all shew of Reverence or Respect either of that Holy place or Action the one being the House of Almighty God the other a continued Vicissitude as it were of Speech between God and his People The due consideration whereof might easily induce any well-disposed Christian to use such Outward posture and gesture of his body as becometh that Sacred place and the great Majesty of that God to whom they come at that time Professedly to perform a Divine Worship I have therefore thought it my duty incessantly to recommend unto you the Ministers Church-wardens and Side-men the Reformation of this prophane abuse scandalous to our Religion against an express Law in that case provided and condemned by the contrary practice of all Christians in all Ages in their like Solemnities and Assemblies praying and requiring you to joyn together your utmost endeavours to effect the same for which purpose it shall be necessary for you the Church-wardens and Side-men during the time of Divine Service diligently to look about the Church and where you see any covered if Boys or of the younger sort those to shame openly by pulling off their Hats and chastize with such Discipline as you have been laudably accustomed to inflict upon such rude and unmannerly Fellows If the Elder or better sort though I well hope that none of that condition out of their own judgment will hereafter offend in this kind those to admonish gravely of their duty representing unto them the inconvenien●es of this their ill example and how directly repugnant it is to the Apostle 's Rule of Decency in the Church thus to celebrate Divine Service and to perform a Professed and Religious Worship of Almighty God After which your Admonition if any shall obstinately refuse to uncover his o● their heads in Service time you shall then present them to Me or my Chancellor to the end that they by the severity of Censures may be amended by whom brotherly and gentle perswasions have been contemned Moreover also I am certainly informed That the Publick Service of Almighty God in the Churches is omitted and thereby come to neglect and almost scorned forasmuch as the Ministers read not the Divine Service the First and Second Service before their Sermons according to the order of our Church Liturgy and the Canon in that case provided I do therefore hereby require all the Parsons Vicars and Curates in my Diocess to take care that they offend not in this kind strictly likewise requiring you the Church-wardens and Side-men that according to your Oathes you present to Me or my Chancellor those Ministers that shall be faulty in this kind c. City Petition 1646 1. That some strict and speedy course may be taken for the suppressing of all Private and Separate Congregations 2. That all Anabaptists Brownists Hereticks Schismaticks Blasphemers and all such Sectaries as conform not to the Publick Discipline established or to be established by Parliament may be fully declared against and some effectual course taken for proceeding against such persons 3. That as we are all Subjects of one Kingdom so all may equally be required to yield obedience unto the Government set forth or to be set forth by Parliament 4. That no Person disaffected to the Government set forth or to be set forth by Parliament may be employed in any place of Publick trust The most Reverend Father in God the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace to all the Lords the Bishops within his Province of Canterbury AFter my hearty Commendations I have lately received Letters from His Majesty wherein He takes notice of the continuance and increase of some bold Abuses and Extravagances in the Church especially in Preachers notwithstanding His great Indulgence used towards them And fore-seeing the mischief and inconveniencies likely to ensue thereupon if not timely prevented and repressed Hath out of His Princely and tender care of the Peace of the Church sent withall certain Directions to be strictly observed by the Bishops in their several Diocesses as by the Copies thereof which I have sent here inclosed your Lo●dship 's will more fully understand and for the more speedy dispatch and ease in the Communication hath been Graciously pleased to command so many Copies thereof to be Printed as shall be needful a proportionable number whereof will be forthwith sent unto your Lordship for your Diocess Now as we cannot but with all thankfulness acknowledge His Majesty's Affectionate Care and Zeal in this His providing for the good and Welfare of the Church by all means which He finds may be conducible thereunto So my earnest desire and hope is We shall not be so much wanting to our own good as not to second those His Majesty's Commands with the utmost of Our endeavours But that your Lordship when you shall have given order for the careful dispersing and communicating those Copies as is required will by your diligent inspection and serious Admonitions to your Clergy as occasion shall be offered be able in due time to return an account of the success in the Observation answerable to His Majesty 's expectation and Pious Designs in this His Injunction And so with my Prayers to God for a Blessing upon your Endeavours herein I commit you to His holy Protection and rest Your Lordships very Loving Friend and Brother W. Cant. Lambeth 23 Octob. 1662. The Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of London his Injunction GIlbert by the Divine Providence Bishop of London To our Well-beloved in Christ in the City and Our Diocess of London sendeth Greeting Whereas we are informed and sadly resent the great Profanation of

Youth Especially amongst the Poorer sort 11. The want of Imployment 12. The Excessive number of Private and Publique Ale houses and Tap-houses Malus culturafit bonus An Evil person by due ordering is made good Statutes 25 R. 2. c. 6.14 Eliz. c. 5.23 E. 3. c. ult 34 E. 3. c. 1.7 R. 2. c. 5.12 R. 2. c. 7 8.11 H. 7. c. 2.19 H. 7. c. 12.22 H. 8. c. 12.27 H. 8. c. 25.3 E. 6. c. 6. 5 E. 6. c. 2.7 E. 6. c. 11. An. 1. M. c. 12 13.2 3 Ph. M. c. 5.5 Eliz. c. 5.29 Eliz. 39 Eliz. 43 Eliz. 3.1 K. I. E. 6. Injunction 24. Eliz. Injunction 11.14 K. C 2. A CATALOGUE Of all the Arch-bishops and Bishops in England and Wales as they were first Established by his Majesty K. CHARLS the II. Canterbury DR VVilliam Juxon Lord Archbishop Primate and Metropolitan of all England 1633. York Doctor Accepted Frewen Lord Arch-Bishop and Metropolitan of England 1634. London Dr. Gilbert Shelden Lord Bishop 1660. Durham Dr. John Cossens Lord Bishop 1660. Winchest Dr. Brian Duppa Lord Bishop 1638. Prelate of the Garter Bath and Wells Dr. William Piers Lord Bishop 1632. Oxford Dr. Robert Skinner Lord Bishop 1636. Bangor Dr. VVilliam Roberts Lord Bishop 1637. Rochester Dr. John VVarner Lord Bishop 1637. Ely Dr. Matthew VVren Lord Bishop 1638. Chichester Dr. Henry King Lord Bishop 1641. Salisbury Dr. Humphrey Henchman Lord Bishop 1660. Worcester Dr. George Morley Lord Bishop 1660. Lincoln Dr. Robert Sanderson Lord Bishop 1660. St. Asaph Dr. George Grissith Lord Bishop 1660. St. Davids Dr. VVilliam Lucey Lord Bishop 1660. Peterborough Dr. Benjamin Laney Lord Bishop 1660. Landaff Dr. Hugh Lloyd Lord Bishop 1660. Carlisle Dr. Richard Stern Lord Bishop 1660. Chester Dr. Brian VValton Lord Bishop 1660. Exeter Dr. John Gauden Lord Bishop 1660 Bristol Dr. Gilbert Ironside Lord Bishop 1660. Norwich Dr. Edward Reynolds Lord Bishop 1660. Gloucester Dr. VVillam Nicholson Lord Bishop 1660. Hereford Dr. Nicholas Monck Lord Bishop 1660. Coventry and Lichfield Dr. John Hacket Lord Bishop The first five take place by Act of Parliament the rest according to their Consecration Counties under their Several Jurisdictions with the Parishes in each Diocesse Canterbury CAnterbury 257 Rochester 098 have all Kent York Yorkshire Nottinghamshire 581. London Essex Middlesex Hartfordshire part 623. Durham Durham Northumberland Man Isle 135. Winchester Hantshire Surrey Wight Isle Guernsey Isle Jersey Isle 362. Bath and Wells Sommersetshire 388. Oxford Oxfordshire 195. Bangor Carnarvonshire Anglesey Isle Merioneth Denbishire part 107. Rochest Kent part 98. Ely Cambridgeshire Ely Isle 141. Chiche Sussex Hartfordshire part 557. Salisbury Wiltshire Barkshire 248. Worcester Worcestershire Warwickshire part 241. Lincoln Lincolnshire Leicestershire Huntingdonshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Hartfordshire part 1255. St. Asaph Denbyshire part Flintshire part 121. St. Davids Pembrokshire Carmarthenshire 308. Peterborough Northamptonshire Rutlandshire 293. Landaff Glamorganshire Monmouthshire Brecknockshire Radnorshire part 177. Carlisle Cumberland part VVestmerland 93. Chester Cheshire Richmondshire Flintshire part Cumberland part Lancashire 256. Exeter Devonshire Exeter City Cornwal 623. Bristol Bristol City Dorsetshire 236. Norwich Norfolk Suffolk 1121. Glocest Gloucestershire 267. Hereford Herefordshire Shropshire part VVorcestershire part Radnorshire part 213. Coventry and Lichfield VVarwickshire part Staffordshire Derbyshire Shropshire 241. York Durham Carlisle Chester are Diocesles in the Province of York all the rest are in the Province of Canterbury MORAL SENTENCES MOnarchia perfectissima gubernatio A Monarchy is a most perfect Government Basilica reverenter visitanda A Cathedral Church is Reverently to be frequented Vulgi genius perplexus The nature of the Common people is uncertain Seditiosi Rei-publicae ruina Seditious persons are the ruine of a Common-weal Ingenuis acerba penuria Penury is bitter to Ingenuous men Ad inferospoenas parricidii luent They shall suffer Punishment for their Murther in Hell Deteriores omnes sumus licentia We be all the worse by having too much liberty Turba gravis paci A rabble rout grievous to peace Quid opus est armis habentibus Regem What need we fall to Civil warrs seeing we have a King already Sat is peccavit qui resistere non potuit He hath offended sufficiently who cannot oppose Stultus fui qui multos fecerim inimicos Stultior qui falsis amicis confisus fuerim I was a Fool that made so many to be my Enemies but more Foolish that trusted false Friends Ei qui semel fidem solvit iterum habere fidem vix est tutum It is not safe to give credit to him the second time who hath once Violated his faith Odio digna est simulatio simulatione capienda Dissembling is worthy of hatred and to be catched with Dissembling De quo bene Merearis vide Beware of whom you deserve well Cave fidem habeas verbis Take heed how you trust words Invidia vero dementius est nihil Nothing more mad than Envy Falsis testimoniis opprimi quamplurimos tum nemo nescit Very many men are undone by false witnesses as every one knoweth Intellige per vulpem pauperculos quos calumniis premere contumeliisque afficere divitibus aequè studium est By the Fox understand poor men whom wealthy ones study to oppress with Calumnies and Reproaches Malus si libitum fuerit quo jure quaque injuria praecipitem dabit A wicked man right or wrong will undoe thee Impotenti sincero perpetuò est cum malis parata certatio There is a perpetual Enmity betwixt powerless honest and wicked men Non sunt amici omnes qui blande dicunt They are not all Friends who speak flatteringly Verum amicum res adversae pericula designant Adversity and danger Evidence a true friend Qui plura quàm decet quaerit interdum acquirit nihil He that hunts after more than is sitting sometimes gets nothing Potens si libet nocere facile capit nocendi causam A mighty man if he lists to hurt easily takes occasion Unumquemque suo decet esse contentum It becometh every man to be content with his own Unicum summum praesidium complurium amicitia est The only and chief strength is the friendship of many Noli omnibus fidem habere Multi enim dum aliis videntur velle prodesse sibi interim consulunt Trust not all men for many while they seem willingly to do others a pleasure in the mean time provide for themselves Quibuslibet enim rebus potior est libertas Liberty is better than any thing whatsoever FINIS Words explained used in this Book Indifferent Not forbiden nor Commanded that may or may not be done but as Authority shall Judge most meet Properly bind the Conscience By a Divine ordination Simply necessary Of Divine ordination Immediate worship An Act of obedience to the first Table for the honouring of God Properly so called Any action done to the honouring of God immediately in such things as God hath to that end ordained Improperly or Respectively Ceremonies ordained of men to attend upon any service or an Act done to the honouring of God by the orderly and comely usage of his own ordinance Ambulatory Rites Ceremonies that have not Divine Institution Properly Sacred Of Divine Institution Symbols Tokens Institution Ordination Appointment disposing Administration Subaltern Placed under another Venerable Honourable Convocation An Assembling together of Arch-bishops Bishops c. Books written by the Author ADvice or Considerations for Parents and Masters Masters and Scholars Scholars Parents and Masters Printed for the Author and to be sold by R. H. at the Bible in Heart in Little Britain The young Maidens Guide directing the Newest Exactest and easiest way to Learn to Spell with a Catechism Lessons Divine and Moral Graces Prayers The Praise of Women and Virgins Directions for their Carriage with other Delightfull matter crept abroad full of Errours and wanting many pages to the great wrong of the buyer and greater injury to the Author the perfect Copy being now ready and intended for the Press