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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

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

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-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

into the Epistles and Gospels which was not heard of before the days of Popery I dare not Avow that this is that Reverend handling of the Scriptures and the right dividing of the Word of Truth which Saint Paul Requireth 2 Tim. 2. 15. Thirdly The great Inconveniency which hath followed this Book while it hath Maintained an Vnlearned Ministry and made it thought sufficient to have the Service Read wherein we have made the Spirit of God to speak in vain 1 Tim. 3. 12. which Requires the Ministers of the Gospel to be apt to Teach and to exhort and Reprove Tit. 1. 9. This is an other Cause why I cannot Subscribe unto the Book that it hath all things answerable to the Word of God But the Abridgment is much more full bringing Arguments from the Scripture The Fathers the Old Reformers and our own Old Protestant Doctors against it whereof I shall give this following Account First It is contrary to the Word of God to use such Ceremonies in the Worship of God as man has devised if they be notoriously known to have been of old and still to be abused unto Idolatry and Superstition by the Papists especially if the same be now of no necessary use in the Church where note that the Ceremonial part of the English Service that is like unto that of the Romish is what has been abused by the Papists to Idolatry or Superstition but yet are not so necessary to Divine Worship but that the Worship may be Compleat Devout and orderly without them which appears saith they First by the Second Commandment which forbids all provocation unto Spiritual Fornication as the 7th doth unto that which is Carnal Secondly By the Commandment and Direction God hath given us in his Word to Seperate our selves from Idolaters and be as unlike to them as may be especially in their Religions Observations and Ceremonies to abolish not only all Idols and that so as we may best shew our utmost Detestation to them and root out the very memory of them Thirdly By the Equity and Reasons of these Commandments which we find set down in Holy Scripture viz. 1. The detestation which the Lord our God being a Jealous God beareth unto Idolatry and all the Instruments and Tokens thereof as unto Spiritual Whoredom Secondly That it cannot be said sincerely we have Repented of the Idolatry of our Forefathers unless we be ashamed of and cast away with Detestation all the Instruments and Monuments of it Thirdly That we shall be in danger to be Corrupted in the Substance of Religion and Purity of Doctrine and even to fall back again to Idolatry if we Conform our selves to Idolaterous Ceremonies yea if we shew not all Detestation unto them Fourthly That our Conformity with Idolators in their Ceremonies wherein they Repose the greatest part of their Religion will be a special means to harden them in Superstition Fifthly That seeing the Pope is revealed to be that Great Antichrist and his Idolatry troubleth the Church at this day more than any other and our people Converse more with Papists then with any other Idolators there is more danger in the Retaining of the Ceremonies and Relicks of Popery then of any other Idolatry whatsoever By the Judgment of the Godly Learned of all Churches and Ages who have Constantly Taught and given Testimony of this Truth That Christians are Bound to cast off the Ceremonies and Religious Customs of Pagans Jews Idolators and Hereticks and Carefully to shun all Conformity with them therein In the Council of Nice it was Decreed That Christians might not keep the Feast of Easter at that Time nor in that manner the Jews did let us say they in nothing agree with that most detestable rout of the Jews And in another Councel That none should fast on the Lords Day because the Manachees had taken up that day to fast in That such Altars as were set up in the Country and High-ways in Memory of the Martyrs should be Abolished and that Solemn Requests should be made to the Emperor that all Reliques and Monuments of Idolatry might be utterly Destroyed and this Decree we find Cited by Dr. Fulk In another Councel That Christians should not Celebrate Feasts on the Birth days of Martyrs because that was the manner of the Heathens Tertullian is large and vehement in this point As saith he We may give nothing to the Service of an Idol so may you borrow nothing from the Service of an Idol if it be against Religion to sit at Table in any Idols Temple What is it to be seen in the Habit of an Idol Thou that art Christian must hate those things the Authors and Inventers whereof thou canst not choose but hate Austin himself Saith if you would win Pagans leave all their Solemnities for sake their Toyes The Judgment of the Church of Scotland in their Letter to the Bishops of England 1556. from a General Assembly at Edenborough thus writ if Surplice Corner Cap and Tipper have been Badges of Idolators in the very Act of Idolatry what have the Preachers of Christian Liberty and the open Rebukers of Superstition to do with the dress of the Romish Beast And in the Confession of their Faith sworn to by them and the Kings Majesty also We find these words and Detest all his Ceremonies and False Doctrines of the Roman Antichrist added to the Ministration of the True Sacraments We Detest all his vain Rites Signs and Traditions brought into the Church without the Word of God Mr. Rogers that Holy Martyr would not Consent to a Cannon that was to be made in K. Edwards Days for the Clergies Conformity in Cap Tippet and the rest of the Apparel unless it might be Decreed that the Papists for a Difference between them and others might be Constrained to wear upon their Sleves A Challice with a House upon it Bishop Pilkington misliked that in our Liturgy we are so like the Papists in Marriage and many other things this faith he is our fault generally that we differ not from them in all our Ministry Bishop Bilson Defending the Reformed Churches against a Slander of the Papists Approvingly Reporteth thus of them The Reformed Churches Saith he are so far from Admitting the full dost of your Heresies that by no means they can digest one Dram of your Ceremonies Dr. Humphrey Saith That we aught to Refuse to Conform our Selves to the Enemies of God in any of their Ceremonies Professing plainly his Desire and hope of the utter Abolishing of the Ceremhnies af all the Monuments of Popish Superstition that yet Remain in our Church Dr. Fulk Saith That if a man mislike our Form of Service as not differing sufficiently from yours he Sheweth his greatest Zeal in Detestation of your Idolatry and Blasphemy And again we abhor sath he whatsoever hath but a Shew of Popery Dr. Stu●liff maketh this one of his Principal Arguments against the Papists that they have derived most of their Ceremonies and Customs from the