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A04429	The opinion, judgement, and determination of two reverend, learned, and conformable divines of the Church of England, concerning bowing at the name, or naming of Jesus. The one somtime a member of the Vnivertie of Cambridge, in a letter to his Christian freind: the other sometime a member of the Vniversitie of Oxford, in a treatise to his brethren the ministers of the Church of England. Printed at Hambourgh, 1632	H. B., Bachelor of Divinity.; I. H., Bachelor of Divinity.; S. O., fl. 1630-1634.; Ofwod, Stephen, attributed name.; Burton, Henry, 1578-1648, attributed name.	1634 (1634)	STC 14555; ESTC S106466	28,118	82

his Gospell and the true professours of it Such are they that would set up Antichrist againe that are so ready to bow cap cring or kneel to this Superstitions being ennemies of the crosse of Christ Whose end is damnation whose God is their belly which mind Earthly things Now the Lord purge us more and more from all Antichristian Superstition and Idolatrie and establish our hearts in his saving Truth to our eternall salvation AMEN Your true loving freind in Christ Iesus OF Doing reverence and particularly of bowing the knee at the name of IESVS By the Reverend I. H. Bachelour in Divinitie Who sometimes having erred and gone astray from the Church afterwards at a publike place preached by command published a Testimonie of his heartie re-union humble submission to the church of England his acknowledged deere Mother To his reverend Brethren the Ministers of the Church of England IT is certaine that the Christians who lived in the best Ages of the Church did aunciently observe the Ceremonies of uncovering the Head at the Name of Iesus as learned Zanchy doth manifestly confesse in his Comment upon Phil. 2 10. A custome saith he not to be dissalovved for it was a testimony of reverence adoration of our Lord Iesus Christ which was introduced Originally in regard of the Iewes and Gentile who despised him and reteined afterwards against Arrians and other Hereticks impugning the Divinitie of Christ. This reason of the said Ceremonie now ceassing the Ceremonie it selfe might ceasse with it for so it is in the Law the soule thereof namely the reason of it being gone the Law doth consequently ceasse with it Notwithstanding because Mr. Hooker lib. 5. Sect. 50. and many learned men doe observe some other reasons for the continuance of the Ceremonie of bowing the knee at the name of Iesus as a thing Lawfull yea lawdable in some sort but in no wise necessarie as it shall afterward appeare I will co●f●sse with that famous Divine Doctour Fulk on Phil. 2 10. that it may be well used Howbeit as Zanchy noteth of uncovering the Head so I may say of bovving the knee at the name of Iesus that it hath beene perverted to a superstitious practise For as many abuse this Ceremonie in the Church of Rome so some abus● it in the Church of England Now the reasons why Christians did use reverence at the name of Iesus by cap or knee or both rather than at any other name though it and they importing one and the same thing so their understandin are many First because this name above all other Names was in great detestation and contempt as Festus speaketh of him Acts 25. 19. The Ievves had question against Paul touching one Iesus This name also by the ignominie of the Crosse upon his title Iesus of Nazareth was placed became more execrable to the unbeleevinge World Secondly it was his proper name or the name of his person appointed by God foretold by the Angell Luke 1 31. imposed in his circumcision Luke 2 21. where he had his peculiar and distinct appellation and yet this is his personall Name not only as he is Man but as he is one Christ and subsisteth in two natures Divine and Humane Thirdly because of the signification for it doth expresse the Office of the Redeemer in the worke of Salvation Matth. 1 21. Fourthly men tooke occasion of this complementall reverence from the very Text it selfe Phil. 2 10 as sounding to that purpose The question is therefore whether or how far forth we are bound to this externall act of reverence either by force of the said Scripture or by authority of any constitution of the Church Of both which I will treat in order 1. Of the true meaning of the Scripture Phil 2 10. At the name of Iesus shall every knee bow both of things in Heaven and things in Earth and thiugs under the Earth If it be the true proper and literall sense of this Text that we must bow the knee by externall reverence at the name of Iesus then it is a precept binding us to the necessitie of this practise by indispensable obligation If it be not the true proper and literall sense of the said Scripture to bow the knee at the name of Iesus by such an externall act of reverence then are we not bound to the practise of this Ceremonie by the force and vertue of the Scripture To enter therefore into a more exact and sound discussion of this point wee must observe 3. rules which serve to open this particular and sundry other in the sacred Scripture 1. Whereas no point of Religion can be demonstrated out of the Scripture but as the Scripture is taken in the true proper and literall sense which the learnedst in the church of Rome do also confesse we must acknowledge that the Scripture hath but one true proper literall sense the sense of it being the very forme of it and every thing hath but one forme as reason and Philosophy do dictate to our understanding so that all other senses so called as Tropilogicall Allegoricall Analogicall are inded not properly senses of the Scripture but an accommodation of the Scripture to the use of the Readers Hearers 2. Secondly that is the true proper literall sense of the Scripture which the intention of the speaker and the nature of the thing it selfe doe importe to our understanding by what words soever proper or unproper the said sense be expressed in the Scripture 3. Thirdly we must therefore observe that the true proper and literall sense of the Scripture is not allwayes that which the words do beare immediately in their grammaticall signification but that the words of the Scripture are sometimes proper as Christ is the Son of God sometimes improper or methaphoricall as Christ is a vine a Dore. Now if the words be improper and metaphoricall as we shall see anon we must note that as D●s Whitakers did truely advertise Bellarmine the improper vvords carry not in them the literall sense of the Scripture immediately for then great absurditie would follow but mediatly that is to say as they are reduced unto proper words as here bowing the knee at the name of Iesus is an improper or methaphoricall speech and is reduced to this proper speech viz. a subjection of the Creaturs to the Sonne of God which being the true proper literall sense of that Scripture is contained in an improper metaphoricall speech I come therefore punctually to the thing in question and say that the true proper literall sense of the Scripture doth according to the intention of S. Paul and the nature of the thinge it selfe represent unto our understanding not an outward Ceremonie of bowing the knee of the body but a reall subject on of all the Creatures in Heaven Earth and Hell unto the Sonne of God even as he is the Sonne of Man also now exalted unto Glory Whereas therefore S. Paul saith God

cū faciendi c. So Ambr. in Phil. 2. So Augustin in Psal. 109. So Gloss. in●rlin Ordinar Quia Christus ostendi●r post Resurrectionem esse Dominus Caele●●stium terrestrium infernorum c. And all the Fathers ●nanimously runn 〈◊〉 this straine And among Popish in●●rpreters let the testimony of Aquinas●●d ●●d Anselme suffice understanding it 〈◊〉 the subjection of all Creatures And ●●●uno Donavit nomen id est honorificen●●m ut ad honorem Iesu omne genu flecta●●●●d est omnia ipsi plene subjiciantur Ho●●t in die judici● And that this is the ●●e sense of the place according to o●●er Scriptures the Church of England 〈◊〉 testifie which in the margent of the ●●glish Translations conferreth Phil. 〈◊〉 10. with Rom. 14. 11. and Isay 45. 23. ●sal 2. 10. For the latter let Beza speak name●aith ●aith he signifieth dignitie and renowne ●t joyned with the thing it selfe as Ephe. 〈◊〉 21. For that Osiander referreth this to 〈◊〉 very name of Iesus which he confounded ●●th Iehovah is the meere doctage of a mad ●●utheran So he Againe the Holy Ghost himself expoundeth the name of Iesus here of 〈◊〉 person of Iesus as Isa. 45. 23. and Rom 14. 11. to which this place hath speci●● reference as also Mal. 1. 1. and Ioh. 12. ● as also of the power of Christ Exod. 2● 21. For my name is in him that is my ●●vine power is in him that Angell of 〈◊〉 Covenant to protect or punish To this purpose the late Revere●● Bishop Babington one of the late G●vernours of our Church on the Lo●● Prayer the first Petition expounded these words that at the name of Iesus ●●●ry knee should bow thus that is saith 〈◊〉 not when the word is pronounced we sho●● make a curtesie but we shall all and ev●● creature be subject to his power authority 〈◊〉 dominion The place is worth the r●●ding at large also in his exposition up●● the Creed where confuting the Pop●●● superstition about this name Iesus as ●mong the rest how by this name a so●●diour was helped out of S. Patricks P●●gatorie and the like He saith I thi●● the place to the Philippians is not well und●●stood hath and doth deceive them Indeed ●hey are easily deceived that will not ●earch ●o● truth and they are justly given ●ver to strong delusions that delight in ●rrou● and have not a love of the Truth They lies do love that ertours do defend And he is vertues fo that is errours freind Otherwise the place to the Philip●ians would not be so grossely mistakē if ●●e ma●ke whence the Apostle tooke it ●●d compare spirituall things with spiri●uall things The place is borrowed ●rom the Prophet Isaih and therefore by ●onsequence evidēt that the word name ●ignifieth Power glorie honour and autho●itie above all powers glories honours and ●uthorities and bowing the knee signifieth ●ubjection submission and obedience of all Creatures to his beck rule and Government This knew the auncient Fathers S. Origen Non est carnaliter hoc accipiendum quasi caelestia ut Sol Luna Angeli genu● aut lingua habeant Sed genu flectere significat cuncta subjecta esse cultui Dei obe● dire who upon Rom. 14. 11. where these words be againe saith These words are no● to be taken carnally as though things in Heaven as the Sunne Moone Angels c. ha● knees or tongues but to bow the knee signifieth that all things shall be subject and obedient to the service of God So he wher● he also alleageth Ierome Theophylact Ambrose The Glosse Beda and some Popis● Authours of the same mind And Gre●gory Nyssen in his disputation de Anim● Resurrectione saith that this bowing ● the knee signifyeth the unanimity of men an● Angells in confessing Christ. Hereunto let me ad what D. Wille● hath said of this matter in an answer to the Rhemists cavil against Protestāts abou● it The name of Iesus say they ought to 〈◊〉 worshipped by capping and kneeling there unto by wearing it in their capps vnd setti● it up in solemne places alleaging for the● purpose that of S. Paul that at the nam● of Iesus every knee should bow Phi. 2 10 Yea they say that Protestants by abolishing the name and image of Christ doe make a way for Antichrist Rhem. Annot. Phil. 2 Sect. 2 and Rev. 13. 7. To this he answereth in the Protestants name saying The bovving at the name of Iesus as it is used in Poperie to bend the knee at the sound thereof is not commanded ●n this place which shevveth especially the subjection of all Creatures of Turks Iewes Infidels yea of the Devills themselves to the power and judgement of Christ. Secondly Protestants have only taken away the Superstitious abuse of the name of Iesus Thirdly the kneeling at the name of Iesus is Superstitiously abused in Poperie For the people stoop only at the Sound not uuderstanding what is read and so make an Idoll of the Letters and Syllables adoring worshipping the very name when they heare or see it And againe in sitting and not v●illing at the name of Christ Immauuell God the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost and bovving only at the name of Iesus Dis Fulk ibid. Fourthly due reverence may be used to our Saviour without any such Ceremony of capping and kneeling saith Fulk neither doc vve binde any of necessitie to use this Reverence to the Name of Iesus as the Papists doe which thinke Christ cannot otherwise be honoured neither doe we judge and condemne those that doe use it being free from Superstition and grounded in knowledge and carefull not to give offence for superstitions and offensive ignorance is not in any case to be defended Fifthly this outward reverence at the name of Iesus was taken up amongst Christians because of all other names it was most derided and scorned of the Pagans and Iews and therefore they did the more honour it But now there is greater daunger of Popish Superstition in abusing holy things than of Paganisme in utterly contemning them and therefore there is not such necessity and just occasion of using this externall gesture as was in former times it was not used of necessitie ●hen much lesse now So he D. Fulk also in his answer to the Rhemists on that place besides that alleaged by Dr. Willet from him saith in particular to the Iesuites You complaine that to remove such impietie as the Image and name of Iesus is to abolish all true Religion out of the World and to make men plaine Atheists The same was the complaints of the Pagans against the Christians But to worship God only according to the Prescript of his Holy Word is true Religion and to teach men to worship contrary thereunto it maketh men either Idolaters or altogether Atheists And when you say the Popish Church doth not honour those things nor count them holy for their matter colour sound c. but for respect and