be taken that they may often render an account what they have received and how such treasure is disposed on in every particular Councell of Toledo the 6. and 5 canon Councell of Arles 14. Article Councell of Toledo 9. and can. 1 Rom. 2.22 Acts 2 4. 2 Cor. 8.3 The 37. canon of the Councell of Rhemes is utterly against those deceitfull withdrawing and converting of the Church treasury to their owne benefit XX That no water-man may row on the Sabbath day as many doe make a practice of it no Carrier travell on that day no Taverne or Alehouse may entertaine any company on that day to drinke or revell but onely such strangers and travellers as they have entertained and to them onely as diet and lodging not to drinke and carouse nor receive any company who come of purpose for jollity drinking-matches merriment and the like whereby the holy Sabbath hath beene much polluted That no Applemonger Chandler Barber Semster Shoomaker Tailor or any other trade or occupation whatsoever may be admitted to trade or to have any imployment in or about their vocation on the Sabbath day save onely such offices who belong to the Church to the poore to the sicke or the like which for piety ought not or for charity could not bee done before or after the Sabbath to prevent the doing of it then but that no sports or pastimes no common trading for unconstrained uses nor Courts of judicature nor any unnecessitated temporall employments and practices be permitted or suffered on that day to be done nor in any part or houre thereof neither before in or after the time of the generall duties in the assembly of the Church Councell of Chalons 50 canon Austin epist. 162. 166 Councell of Arles 16 article Austin Concil. epist. 86. Councell of Ments canon 37. 2 Chro. 2.4 Lam. 1.7 Ezekiel 20. Isa 56.4 Ezek. 22 8. Hosea 2.11 The Councell of Arles permits neither markets justice Courts nor trading nor labouring on the Sabbath day as it is in the 16. article of the said Councell Infinite are those examples which might bee alledged of Gods judgments which have fallen upon families Townes Cities and whole Kingdomes for neglect herein as is manifest in the Theatre of Gods judgements the Practice of Piety Eusebius with divers Chronicles and Bookes besides XXI That what company or assembly soever are tolerated in the Kingdome yet that all his Majesties subjects in the Kingdome who are able and may doe come to the assembly and congregation in the Church on the Sabbath day both morning and evening and there joyne with the assembly during all the time of the exercises of the Church that so the whole congregation may all partake of those glorious ordinances which shall bee used in the Church to the glory of God and the comfort of their owne soules Sozom. lib. 2. cap. 2. Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 18. Euseb. de vita Constantin lib. 4. Levit. 4 15. Num. 14.1 1 Kin. 8.14 Ezra 2.14 Neh. 7.66 Iob 30.28 Neh. 5.13 Psal. 82.1 Acts 13.43 Mach. 2.5 Levit. 5.10 1 Cor. 1.2 Revel. 2.3 Revel. 12.1 Phil. 2. Matth. 18.17 1 Cor. 14.34 XXII That Popery and all the reliques thereof may bee utterly rooted out of our Churches and pure Religion setled established Saint Ambrose of virgins lib. 4. Austin of Relig. tom 1 chap. last Deut. 5 9. 1 Cor. 10.5 Gal. 5.20 1 Iohn 5.21 Deut. 4.15 Ezod. 32.8 Father Latimer saith in his second Sermon before King Edward speaking how the Romish Bishop stood out so stiffely to bring in Popery and settle it â—n the Church of England the Bishop of Rome saith he sent him a Cardinalls hat for his labour but saith hee he should have had a Tiburne tippet a halfepeny halter and all such proud Prelates These Romish trumpery saith he never brought good into England XXIII That all Popish bookes hereticall and schismaticall bookes all unjust and scandalous pamphlets which by due examination are found so to be all vaine and ungodly bookes ballads love-songs and lascivious bookes and vaine pamphlets may be called in and no more such may be ever tolerated hereafter or dispersed either in print or in manuscript which vaine bookes ballads and pamphlets have taken deeper impression upon the hearts of many thousands to draw them to love and delight in those actions of sin into which they have beene seduced by reading of them Councell of Towers 11 canon and 16. canon 1 Tim. 3.5 3 Iohn 6. Acts 19.37 2 Cor. 11.28 Menander was a man so delighted with wanton bookes that he writ himselfe 80. bookes of love and in the end grew outragious in the love of women XXIV That the revenues of Cathedralls be employed to better purposes and not wasted upon pipers dancing-masters drunken and deboist fellowes and such as are no way beneficiall or advantagious to the Church of Christ to the State nor to the bodies or souls of any members of the Church or State but that it may bee employed on such and in such a manner whereby the Church of God may be bettered thereby Councell of Towers the 11. canon and 16. canon Councel of Trent pag 574. 1 Tim. 3.5 3 Iohn 6. Act. 14.37 2 Cor. 11.28 Is it not a miserable thing that such men who are very ignorant in the Scriptures and in the worship of God whose whole life is spent in idle songs in tavernes and wanton company who understand very little or no divinity at all who are neither able to preach nor to expound the Scriptures shall be entertained into the Church whilst honest and sound Ministers are in want XXV That in all things all care possible may be taken that the Church of England may become a glorious Church Theodorâ—tus lib. 5. ca. 20. Socrates lib. 1. cap. 1. lib 3 cap. 18. Heliopolus Iudea Ruff lib. 2. cap 30. Sozom. lib. 2. cap. 2. Ier. 9.24 1 Cor. 1.31 2 Cor. 10.17 Exod. 33.18 Ioh. 1.14 2.11 2 Kin. 8.11 FINIS
20. cap. 2. Euseb. lib. 5 cap. 11. Platin in vita Lucii Euseb. lib. 2. cap. 11. Irenaeus contra Val. lib. 5. Deut. 5.32 1 Sam. 15.22 Levit. 10.1 Ier. 5.31 Hosea 9.15 Matth. 15.3 Marke 7.8 Col. 13.8 1 Pet 4.11 2 Iohn 16. VII That there be no such disorderly and interrupted kinde of praying as is used in the Church Liturgy but that the Pastor or Minister only pray aloud in a decent and orderly manner to the peoples capacity as the mouth of the Congregation not being interrupted the people silently joyning with him that so they may pray in spirit and in truth together and that thereby their affections may be the more elevated assenting thereto with the word Amen or the like expression without disturbance as the custome is when the Minister prayes one thing the people they interrupt him and pray for something else who should rather give their assent to that which the Pastor or Minister prayeth for with Amen or the like expression Councell of Towers canon 37. and 38. Basil on 38. Psalm Cyprian on the Lords Prayer Councell of Arles Coūcel of Trent pag. 574. Ambrose on 1 Cor. 1.14 Aug. in Christian doctrine lib. 4. ca. 10 1 King 13.6 2 Chron. 11.26 1 Cor. 14.16 Acts 14.21 Neh. 1.6 Rom. 14.13 Num. 11.2 2 King 6.17 Ezr. 10.1 Act. 20.36 and 21.5 Iam. 5.18 1 Chron. 16.36 Ne◠5.13 Neh. 8.6 Psal. 41.13 VIII That the Ministers of Christ may not be compelled to supertitious bowings or to wearing of the Surplesse Tippet c. or to observe any other superstitious ceremony which Iesus Christ never imposed upon them And that there be no Courts allowed to have power to binde mens consciences to the observance of such things as are not onely not manifest in Gods word but contrary to the same which hath beene a great burden to the Church of God Councell of Trent Origen 3. Hom. on Ieremia Ioseph antiq lib. 8 cap. 11 Ruff. lib. 2. ca. 9. Theod. lib. 5. cap. 8. Origen on Matth. 25. Hom. Cypr treatise of the simplicity of Prelates Ambr. on 1 Cor. 7. Hosea 9.15 Psal. 31.6 Matth. 23.4 Acts 15.10 Col. 12.8 Tit. 1.13 1 Pet. 4.11 Mach. 25. The Prelates which are so in love with Ceremonies may thinke upon that story of the Devill in Iosephus who came amongst the Bishops with his fine sleeves rochet and every thing as compleat as any amongst them to the wonder and astonishment of the beholders IX That the faithfull and painfull Ministers of the word of God may bee reverently respected and that the people doe diligently heare and attend them and bee not suffered in any wise to scandalize them nor have power to depose them or put them out whom before they made choice of by a free consent except upon just cause and such proofe as shall apparently manifest that they are such as ought to bee deprived by the word of God but otherwise to respect them as such who have the charge and are the overseers of their soules Councell of Trent pag. 265. Councel of Arles Ignatius in his Epistle to Ierome Calvin on Rom. 12. Beza on Rom. 12. Eph. 4.11 1 Tim. 5.17 1 Pet. 5.1 Acts 46.47 Mal. 3.16 Heb. 13.4 Acts 4. Ephes. 4. Galat. 3.5 X. That the oath ex officio be so overthrown that it may never rise againe to exact as it hath done in the Prelates Courts extorting upon mens concealed thoughts molesting innocent causes by secret suggestions and that all Courts shall henceforth proceed against onely such crimes as are evident to be sins by the word of God and made manifest either by the confession of the party himselfe without an oath or the witnesse of honest and sufficient testimony by an oath And that every person accused shall bee heard without partiality or injustice to speake freely what hee can for himselfe in any matter or cause whatsoever shall bee objected against him Councell of Calon can. 13. Speed Chron. pag. 88. Euseb. cap. 6. lib. 9. Theod. lib. 1. cap. 29. Socrates lib. 1. cap. 24. Sim. on the Church pa. 282. his Magd. cent 4. chap. 10. Ambrose hom de Basilic tradent Simson on the Church pag. 564. Councell of Arles 26. Article 2 Cor. 12.21 Psal. 89.32 Mat. 5.45 1 Cor. 15.33 Iohn 6.16 2 Cor. 10 8. Gal. 6.1 Titus 3.10 Matth. 13.29 Iohn 12.6 1 Cor. 15.33 Isay 59.2 Rom 8.35 Matth. 16.18 Iohn 9.22 2 Cor. 2.8 How necessary this reformation is let all men judge who know the proceedings and censures of Master Burton Master Prinne and Doctor Bastwicke c. XI That no Ecclesiasticall officer may proceed to penance or excommunicate any offender for his crime after he shall freely acknowledge the same by professing hearty repentance if the crime be private or a publike acknowledgement and confession with protestation of penitency if the offence bee notorious it being the office of the civill Magistrate to doe the rest Yet if such offenders be obstinate and will not be perswaded to penitency he who shall so continue an heretick may be excommunicated yet not without the consent of the whole Congregation in the publike assembly and then to leave them to God and the further punishment of the civill Magistrate yet to labour in the tender bowels of mercy to bring them into the Church againe by repentance and not to suffer if it be possible the weake brethren to perish Imp. hist. 99. Iustin Apol. 2. Theodoret. lib. 2. cap. 4. Bernard de cons. lib. 25. Cyprian Epist. 1◠9. lib. 2. Peter Martyr com places part 4. cap. 5. Counsell of Trent pag. 813. Peter Mar. com plac p. 57. Deut. 13.5 Gen. 3.23 Eph. 5.11 2 Ioh. verse 10. Rom. 9.3 Matth. 18.17 Ier. 51.16 Eph. 5.11 Rom. 16.17 Gal. 1.8 Acts 20 28. Acts 1.15 Gal. 6.1 Titus 3.10 Rom. 16 17. Acts 20.28 Iohn 12.6 XII That all Ecclesiasticall officers of what order or degree soever they be in the Church may be liable to the punishment of temporall Magistrates as well as the lay people and that not only for whoredome drunkennesse swearing and the like crimes but that it may be lawfull also for the temporall Magistrate to punish them for abuses in their Ecclesiasticall offices Socrates lib. 2. cap. 7. Sozom. lib. 3. cap. 7. Ambros. hom de Bazilic traden Councell of Trent lib. 2. pag. 161. 167. Councell of Arles Artic. 22. Rom. 13.1 3. 1 Pet. 2.14 Gen. 9.16 Iohn 19.10 11. The 39. Canon of the Councell of Towers doth exhibit all Consistories and Iudgement seats and secular matters not onely out of the Church but so far commits them to the civill Magistrate that they suffered them not in the very porch of the Church XIII That no part of the Apocrypha bee appointed to be read in the Church Liturgy as it useth to be notwithstanding many chapters in the canonicall Scriptures which are never read that therefore onely the Canonicall Scriptures may be reade in Churches And moreover that it be
so ordered that the whole Canonical Scriptures may be appointed to bee read through once every yeare if not expounded also In the third Councell of Carthag. canon 47. In the councell of Chālons canon 47. Saint Chrysostome on 2 Cor. hom 3. S. Austin of the Trinity lib. 3. cap. 11. Ambrose on the Incarnation of our Lord chap. 3. Psal. 119.105 Hosea 6.7 Luke 16.20 Marke 10 Acts 10.4 Rom. 9.12 XIV That the people may not bee constrained in the Sacrament to any particular gesture That the people may not bee constrained in the Sacrament to any particular gesture or outward Ceremony nor meet with such disturbance as some have done at that very time about outward superstition and vaine trifles That all such who being in the Church come to the Sacrament prepared may be admitted without disturbance And that the Ministers may bee restrained from that vaine adoration of the Sacrament by bowing which many use to the great dishonour of Almighty God making an idoll of the bread and wine given to us for a sacrament ordained by Christ not to be adored as a God or idoll but used as a sacrament And that the Communion Table may never any more be altered or called an altar or set up otherwise but stand as a Table in the Church according to Christs institution And that the Crosse in Baptisme be no more tyed to the Church nor any such like Popish Ceremonies or circumstances as the childe promising and answering in the godfathers and godmothers in it selfe as it were as if the Ghost of the childe had at that time being in them That all such popish rites and superstitions may be reformed Councell of Trent lib. 7 pag. 669. Tertull. against Marcion lib. 4. Basil of the holy Ghost Saint Cyprian of Christs baptisme Ruffin lib. 1. ca. 14. Ambrose of sacram lib. 1. Austin on Iohn treatise 80. Hag. 2.12 Matth. 3.11 Iohn 3.5 Rom. 4 9. 1 Cor. 10. 1 Eph. 5.25 2 Pet. 3.21 Rom. 4.11 1 Cor. 10.16 Tit. 3.5 Saint Austin in his epistle to Bonifacius 23. Ep. We say saith he on Easter day this day Christ rose from death death whereas we know that it was many hundred yeares since that he arose from death yet wee doe not herein speake lyes when wee so speake because every one knowes that we call the day so by a similitude to the day wherein the thing was done which by the course of the yeare is a like day so wee say such things were done this day or that day for the celebration of the Sacraments when as we know both the day and the thing it selfe was long since Was Christ offered any more but once and he offered himselfe so that the outward things in the Sacrament are not very Christ but the sacrament or similitude of his death c. XV That all Crucifixes Candles Tapers and Images bee removed out of our Churches and all Idolatry and such like vaine worship that so the Church of England may become so glorious a Church when she shall be void of all Popish shadowes and ceremonies using no other expressions or jestures of the body save onely such whereby the body expresseth that which is in the minde Sozom. lib. 7 cap. 23. Ruffin lib. 1. ca. 8. Socrates lib. 1. cap. 17. Theod. lib. 1. cap. 18 Ambr. de obit Theodor Magd. hist. cent 8. cap. 9. Exo. 20.4 Psal. 115.4 Isay 42.8 1 Cor. 5.11 2 Cor. 6.6 It is lamentable to consider the lying fables and tales which the Iesuites make the simple people beleeve of Crucifixes and Candles c. amongst the rest how abominable is that fable which they declare and tell the people of a wicked fellow who never did any good deeed in all his life save onely once he offered a Candle to the Virgin Mary for which as their lying fable saith when he was in hell afterwards hee cryed to the Virgin Mary to helpe him and she hearing of him returned him his Candle againe with the which he fought with the Devils and drove them all away and rid himselfe of them c. XVI That such who are studious in Divinity and have not received as yet the orders of the Ministery holding no heresie nor schismaticall doctrine but such as is sound and orthodox and have a good report may be suffered to preach before a Congregation for the tryall and exercise of their abilities to the great satisfaction and proofe on either part albeit they exercise or meddle not with any other part of action of the ministeriall function save onely praying and preaching untill such time they shall bee received into orders Councell of Toledo canon 52. Iren. Saint Augustine on the Prophet Hagg. Luke 10.2 Matth. 25. 1 Tim. 3.1 Isay 58.4 Isay 56.10 Hosea 4.6 Rom. 10.15 This would be a meanes to keepe many unable Schollers who are very unfit for the Ministery out that such as bee received into orders may be knowne to bee able to divide the Word aright XVII That every allowed Pastor and Minister of Gods word may have sufficient maintenance setled upon them in such a forme as none can deprive them of it neither in part nor in whole or at any time force them to sue for it and so bee interrupted from their studies and Pulpits to follow the Law but that they may have it so setled upon them that they may receive it without trouble and that all such of them who dying shall leave behinde them wife or children of honest and good report may in case they should want be provided for Councell of Arles 4. Councell of Toledo 37. canon Austin in 42. sermons to the brethren in the wildernesse Hierom on Levit. distinct 36. 1 Cor. 9.14 Luke 10.7 1 Tim. 5.18 Iames 5.4 Pro. 16.26 Col. 4.12 Amos 8.13 In the Councell of Rheme the Ministers quiet pay was ordered to be precisely done can. 38. XVIII That none be admitted into the order of the Ministery but onely such who are able to preach expound the Scriptures whereby they may discharge the office of a Minister to the carefull overseeing and feeding of the flocke Councell of Arles 10. Article Evag lib. 3. cap. 9. Ruff. lib. 2. cap. 21 Chrys. hom on Matth. Hosea 4.6 Ezek. 34.2 Luke 12.42 One observes well he that will be a Minister saith Haymo on Timoth 5. chapter must have three things in him First that he be of a good Religion Secondly that he be of a good life and conversation Thirdly that he be able to exhort with wholesome doctrine and to reprove the gainsayers thereof XIX That some course be taken for the poore other then that hath been whereby in many places and parishes the Churchwardens have by sacriledge spent that upon themselves which did belong to the poore of the Church and converted it to great benefit for themselves whilest the poore have had very little of it or benefit by it they have made themselves richer by making the Church-treasury poorer That therefore order may