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A91293	Suspention suspended. Or, The divines of Syon-Colledge late claim of the power of suspending scandalous persons, from the Lords Supper (without sequestring them from any other publicke ordinance, or the society of Christians) and that by the very will and appointment of Jesus Christ (not by vertue of any ordinance of Parliament) from whom they receive both their office and authority; briefly examined, discussed, refuted by the Word of God, and arguments deduced from it; and the contrary objections cleerly answered. Wherein, a bare suspention of persons from the Lords Supper onely, without a seclusion of them from other ordinances, is proved to be no censure or discipline appointed by Jesus Christ in his Word: ... That the Lords Supper is frequently, not rarely to be administred as well to unregenerate Christians to convert them, as to regenerate to confirme them: ... / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esq.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1646 (1646)	Wing P4097; Thomason E510_12; ESTC R203299	51,434	45

of Jesus Christ being not satisfied in their consciences that Christ had given them any such divine power in his Word but as an authority derived to them by Ordinance of Parliament and humane institution without declaring it to be of divine right The Ministers of London Westminster and within the Lines of Communication not satisfied with this New indulged Jurisdiction meeting at Syon Colledge June 9. 1646. agreed upon certaine Considerations and Cautions which they soon after published in print wherein contrary to the Parliaments intention and Ordinances they professedly claime this new authority and the exercise thereof by a Divine institution and from Jesus Christ himselfe not from the Parliaments grant witnesse this passage p. 5. We conceive the power of Church-censures and in particular the keeping of ignorant and scandalous persons from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to be in Church Officers BY THE WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF JESUS CHRIST AND FROM HIM THEY RECEIVE THEIR OFFICE AND AUTHORITY Upon which ground they further Remonstrate That the Ordinances touching Presbyterial government do not hold forth a compleat rule nor are in all points satisfactory to their consciences and thereupon conclude thus Resolving by Gods grace to walke IN ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE RULE OF THE WORD not Ordinances and according to the Ordinances SO FARRE AS WE CONCIVE IT CORRESPONDENT TO IT so as they thrust the Ordinances and directions of Parliament quite out of doore and in so doing we trust we shall not grieve the spirits of the truly godly either at home or abroad nor give any just occasion to them that are contrary minded to blame our proceedings let the Parliament take it how they please For my owne opinion I really professe the Presbyteriall Government to be most agreeable to Gods Word and the Independent way to be a Seminary of Scisme Libertinisme Heresie Errors and a Babell of confusion And for the Ministers assembled at Syon Colledge who agreed upon these Considerations and Cautions though I cordially love and reverence their persons yet as others much blame their Discretions in publishing them so I cannot subscribe to this their New Paradox dogmatically asserted in them That the power of suspending Ignorant scandalous persons only from the Lords Supper is in Church Officers by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ and that they have received this Authority from him because I read of no such will or appointment of Jesus Christ in his Word nor of any such Authority exercised by him who admitted b See a Vindication of four serious Questions pag. 17. to 28. Thomas Becons Catechisme vol. 1. fol. 481 482 484. Judas himselfe to his last Supper or expresly delegated to any of his Apostles or any other Church-Officers by what names so ever distinguished True it is that Ministers of the Gospell have power given them to Instruct Exhort rebuke the Ignorant and scandalous with all Authority Tit. 2. 15. To informe and warne them of the great danger of unworthy hearing the Word and receiving the Lords Supper to dehort them under the paine of their owne soules and incurring of Gods judgements not to come unpreparedly to them Luk. 8. 18. Jam. 1. 22 23 25. 1 Cor. 10. 21 22. c. 11. 20. to 34. And when they have thus done they have discharged their duties freed their owne soules and are guiltlesse of the sins of such who will not be kept backe from these Ordinances and prove unprofitable hearers or receivers as Ezek. 3. 17. to 22. c. 33. 7. to 17. Acts 20. 26 27 28. resolve and I have c A Vindication of four serious Questions p. 28. to 48. elsewhere proved at large But that they have any Ministeriall or Magisteriall Authority to keepe back any unexcommunicated person from the Lords Supper onely who earnestly desires to receive it and promiseth reformation without suspending him from all other Ordinances and that by the very will and appointment of Jesus Christ seemes a meere erronious paradox unto me contrary to Isay 55 1. Mat. 11. 28. John 7. 33. Revel 22. 17. and other Scriptures which without any Relation at all unto or opposition against the Ordinances of Parliament for the suspending of Ignorant or scandalous persons from the Lords Supper by vertue of a meere Parliamentary Sanction I shall here summarily discusse and refute with reference onely to that pretended divine Authority will and appointment of Jesus Christ by which our Divines now claime it for the present and resolve to execute it for the future I shall contract the whole Controversie into this one Question wherein the very marrow and substance of it consists not hitherto exactly debated by any to my knowledge Question 1. WHether Ministers or Presbyteries Jurisdictionall Suspention of scandalous Church-members from the Lords Supper onely who desire to receive it without excluding them from all other publick Ordinances as Prayer Preaching Reading Fasting Catechising singing of Psalmes Baptizing of Infants c. he a divine Institution vested in them by the Word of God and the very will and appointment of Jesus Christ For my part with submission to better judgements I hold the negative upon these ensuing Reasons My first Reason is because there is no direct precept or president in the Old or New Testament yet produced by those who assert the contrary to warrant any such suspension of scandalous persons from the Lords Supper onely without a concurrent suspension of them from all other publick Ordinances and that in case onely of obstinate impenitency If any such be to be found I shall desire them to informe me thereof since I could never hitherto upon my exactest enquiry find out any such and then I shall either cleerly answer on submit unto it My second Reason is Because all and every the Texts produced for probate of the contrary opinion of Excommunication to be a divine Institution directly militate against it arguing a totall suspension exclusion from all publick holy Ordinances and Church-assemblies for ceremoniall or morall uncleannesses not from the Passover or Lords Supper onely I shall give you a taste of some of the principle Texts whereon our a See Master Rutherfords divine right of Church government cap 3. to 15. Opposites rely that you may discerne how cleerly they make against them The first is Levit. 13. 3 4 21 26 31 46. cap. 14. 3 8 9 11. He that was infected with the plague of Leprosie among the Israelites was to be b See 2 Kings 7. 3 4. cap. 15. 5. 2 Chro. 26. 20 21 23. shut up by the Priest and during all the time of his Leprosie and uncleannesse he was to dwell ALONE WITHOUT THE CAMPE for feare of Infecting others Upon which ground Miriam when leprous was shut out of the Campe seven dayes and after that received in againe Numb 12. 10. to 16. Ergo he was secluded from all publick Ordinances and religious society not from the Passeover or Lords Supper only if putting out of

SUSPENTION SUSPENDED OR The Divines of SYON-COLLEDGE late claim Of the Power of suspending Scandalous Persons from the LORDS SUPPER without sequestring them from any other Publicke Ordinance or the society of Christians and that by the very Will and Appointment of JESUS CHRIST not by vertue of any Ordinance of Parliament from whom they receive both their Office and Authority briefly examined discussed refuted by the Word of God and Arguments deduced from it and the contrary Objections cleerly Answered Wherein a bare Suspention of Persons from the LORDS SUPPER onely without a Seclusion of them from other Ordinances is proved to be no Censure or Discipline appointed by JESUS CHRIST in his Word That some Texts commonly alledged for proof of such a Suspention and of Excommunication doe really warrant neither That the Lords Supper is frequently not rarely to be Administred as well to unregenerate Christians to convert them as to regenerate to confirme them Whether it be a Seale of Grace or not and in what sense debated and some common mistakes therein rectified By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Lincolnes Inne Esq JER 14. 14. Then the Lord said unto me the Prophets prophesie lyes in my name I sent them not neither have I commanded them neither spake unto them they Prophesie unto you a false vision and divination and a thing of naught and the deceit of their heart 1 JOHN 4. 1. Beloved beleeve not every Spirit but try the Spirits whether they be of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the world LONDON Printed by T. B. for Michael Sparke at the signe of the Blew-Bible in Green Arbour 1646. To the right Honourable HENRY Earle of Kent and the rest of the COMMISSIONERS for the Great Seale of England RIGHT HONORABLE THE Lords Supper being commonly tearmed by Divines both in their Writings and Sermons though never by the spirit of God in sacred Writ a Sacrament and a Seale yea Gods GREAT SEALE of Grace and of the Covenant of Grace wher of our Syon Colledg Ministers now preted themselves the divine LORD KEEPERS asserting that by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ himself they have both Commission and Authority to suspend al such whom they shall deem Ignorant or Scandalous from this SEALE though they earnestly thirst hunger after it and be not actually excōmunicated from any other publicke Ordinance or the society of Christians I conceived I could not so fitly Dedicate this Briefe Examination and Refutation of their Divine claim and new Institution of sole suspention from the Sacrament so much contested for to any others as to Your Honors the present Commissioners for the Custody of THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND to whose Noble Patronage I humbly recommend it so farre forth onely as it shall appear to be consonant to the Word of Truth My little Treatise intituled The opening of the Great Seale of England was through Gods blessing on it one speciall meanes of passing the first Ordinance for the New great Seale of England which hath ever since continued in your keeping and I have some good hopes that by the like divine Benediction on this smaller Pamphlet the Lords Supper the GREAT SEAL OF HEAVEN as many stile it shall be opened and communicated to many poore soules cordially desirous to receive it who otherwise might have most injuriously by colour of the pretended Will and appointment of Jesus Christ been suspended from it Where this Will and Appointment of Christ is to be found in Scripture it rests on the Divines of Syon-Colledge to demonstrate for my part after many diligent inquiries to find it out either in the old or new Testament I alwayes returned with a Non est inventus only this I have observed in my reading that when ever any matters of Ecclesiasticall or Pontificall Jurisdiction have come to be debated the Clergy in all Ages have made very strange Interpretations and perversions of Scripture to maintaine their pretended Divine Authority What ridiculous Inferences the Popes of Rome with their Parasites have published in print to support their usurped Antichristian supremacy over all Bishops Churches and Kings themselves from Thou art Peter arise Peter kill and eat Lanch out into the deep Feed my sheepe God made two great lights Behold here are two swords Ye shall find an Asse and a Colt tyed loose them and bring them hither Tell it to the Church c. is known to all who peruse their Books of this controversie Whether some of our Divines have not incurred the like solecismes and made almost as grose Misapplications of Scripture as they in maintenance of their new Church-government and Discipline I submit to the determination of such who without partiality have perused their la●e Discourses of that subject For my part having neither any private interest nor Design to misbyas my judgment 2 Cor. 3. 8 I a can I dare do nothing against the Truth but for the Truth in this present controversie My impartiall debate whereof though it may displease some will I trust conduce much to the settlement of our publike peace which the unhappy controversies about Church-government have disturbed and find acceptance with all lovers of Truth in generall and your Honours in particular from the hands Of your Devoted Servant WILLIAM PRYNNE SUSPENTION SUSPENDED OR SYON-COLLEDGE Claime of the Power of Suspending Scandalous persons from the Lords Supper by the Will and Appointment of JESUS CHRIST and Authority derived to Church-Officers from him Examined Discussed Refuted by the Word of GOD. WEE Read that one one of the first and fiercest contestations which brake out among Christs owne Apostles even when he sent them out to Preach and when he was about to institute the Lords Supper was concerning Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction a Luke 9. 46. cap. 22. 24 25 26. Mat. 20. 20. to 29. Mark 10. 35. to 46. which of them should be the greatest which though then severely checked and determined by Christ himselfe yet I know not by what unhappy uninterrupted succession it hath disturbed the peace of the Church and whole Christian world more or lesse in all succeeding Ages and in this last Age of ours as much or more then in any precedent Century whatsoever the wisdome of our wisest Counsellours united altogether in our greatest and wisest Counsell the high Court of Parliament being unable to quiet and conjure downe this ambitious restlesse spirit of Domination and contention about Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction still predominating in the Clergy To instance but in one particular The Parliament after long and serious debate was pleased to approve and set up a Presbyteriall Government in our Church and at the Clergies extraordinary importunity in a prudentiall way to give Ministers and Presbyteries power to keep ignorant and scandalous persons from the Lords Supper confining them to a particular enumera●ion of scandals not leaving it arbitrary and indefinite investing them with this authority not as a Jurisdiction bequeathed to them by the will and appointment