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A56184	A moderate, seasonable apology for indulging just Christian liberty to truly tender consciences, conforming to the publike liturgy in not bowing at, or to the name of Jesus, and not kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper, according to His Majesties most gracious declaration to all his loving subjects concerning ecclesiastical affairs ... / by William Prynne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing P4011; ESTC R5505	132,513	174

a bowing of subjection of all Creatures to his Soveraignty especially in the day of Judgement as I have already evidenced at large Which I shall further demonstrate by these ensuing Scriptures Rev. 1.5 6 8 18. Jesus Christ the first begoten of the dead the Prince of the Kings of the earth c. to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almightie I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the keyes of Hell and Death Rev. 3.21 To him that overcommeth will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down in my Fathers Throne Rev. 6.10 And they cryed with a loud voyce how long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our Blood c. And the Kings of the earth and the Great men and the rich men and the chief Capt●ins and the mighty men and every bond-man and free-man hid themselves in the denns c. and said to the Mountains fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. R●v 11.15 16 17. And there were great voyces i● heaven saying The Kingdoms of the World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever And the 24. Elders which sate before God o● their seats fell down on their faces and worshiped God saying We give the thanks Lord God Almightie which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken unto thee thy great Power a●d hast reigned And the Nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy Servants and Prophets and to the Saints and them that fear thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth Rev. 15.3 4. And they sung the song of Moses and of the Lamb saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighy ju●t and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints c. Who shall not fear thee O ●ord and glorifie thy name for thou onely art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgments are made manifest Rev. 16.7 8 9. And I heard the Angel say Thou art righteous O Lord which art and wast and art to come c. And I heard another under the Altar say Even so Lord God Almighty true and righteous are thy judgements Rev. 18.8 c. Shee shall be burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God that judgeth her Rev. 19.1 2 4 c. After those things I heard a great voyce of more people in heaven saying Allelujah salvation ●nd glory and honour and power ●nto the Lord our God for true and righteous are thy judgements for he hath judged the great Whore And the 24. Elders and the 4. Beast● fell down and worshipped God that sat● on the Throne saying Allelujah c. And I heard as it were the voyce of a great multitude and as the Voice of many waters and mighty thundrings saying Allelujah For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth Let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour to him c. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the Nations and he shall rule them with a rod of Iron ●nd he treadeth the winepresse of the wrath of God and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords c. And I saw the dead small and great stand before GOD and the Books we●e opened c. and they were judged every man according to their works And then it will be mo●t clear That the Names of God Lord Lord of Lords c. not the name Jesus not once mentioned in all these Texts is the name above every name and the bowing subjection of all Angels Men Spirits great and small good and bad before the Throne or Judgement seat of Jesus Christ and his judging of them the bowing of every knee and their confessions of him to be LORD and GOD in the glory of God the Father the very same intended in Phil. 2.9 10 11. Isay 45.23 and Rom. 14 4ly Take notice of these his Hyperbolical expressions which may prove very dangerous if not warily unde●stood and quali●ied with some grains of charity and candor Here is super up●n super Another super to his Name no l●sse then his pe●Pe●son That above all persons not excepti●g the Persons of God the Father and God the holy Ghost And this a●ove all names whatsoever not excepting the Names of God God the Father 〈◊〉 HOLY SPIRIT no more then the other great and glo●ious names of Christ Son of God Lord c. whose Persons and Names too are Co-aequal with the Person and Name of I●sus Therefore to be equally adored bowed to and honoured by all O●thodox Christians whereas these his expressions seconded with constant bowing● only at and to the Name Person of Jesus not of God the F●ther or God the Holy Ghost imply yea make an inaequality in the very Trinity it self and advance the pe●Pe●son Name of Jesus the Sonne above the Person N●me of God the Father and Person Name of God the holy Spirit whose Deity the Eunomians Macedonians Samosetanus Photinus and their followers d●nyed of old and Biddolph with others amongst us of late as well as the Arrians denyed the Deity of Jesus Christ. 5ly His words That God requires this service of the knee and that to his Sonnes name Jesus Ye shall not displease him by it fe●r not c. They that will do no honour he me●●s by this bowing at or to it every time it is recited when time of need comes shall have no comfort by it Have mind on him that is named and do his Name the Hono●r and spare not are such dangerous bold assertion● as never fell from any Protestant Divines mouth or pen before his and that in a Royal Court-Auditory and cannot be justified by any of his Admi●ers nor excused as learned Bishop Morton confessed to me when he had well considered them and Archbishop Abbot too from the censure of Name-worship Will-worship nor distinguished from the Papists worshipping of his Name Cross Body in the Eucharist if compared with his former passages 6ly Observe this other collateral passage of his Not to do it at his Name Nay at the holy Mysteries thems●lves not to do It. Which may have a harsh construction agreeable to the Doctrin and practise of the Chu●ch of Rome Even to bow at kneel to adore the very Body of Christ in the consecrated Host and Elements themselves as the Papists do which he hath left behind him in his Chu●ch as the Bishop writes he

neglect of thy Sonne yea verily thou art exceeding angry with those who insult over and refuse to reverence him I would therefore have thee believe me that God the Governour of this World doth in like manner detest those who adore not and speak blasphemies against his only Sonne and that he hates them as ungratefull towards their Saviour and Patron Whose purpose when the Emperour had by this means understood admiring both his Deeds and his Words he forthwith made a Law prohibiting the Assemblies of the Arrian Heretickes And may we not then justly fear by parity of reason that God the Father and God the Holy Ghost will be as much offended with those who bow and do Divine adoration and reverence only to Iesus the Son when ever this Name of his is mentioned and yet do no reverence of bowing or adoration to the Father or Holy Spirit when their Names are mentioned and Persons represented to their mindes together with or before or after the Name Person of Jesus in the self-same Chapter Sermon Collect Prayer Creed or Verse No doubt they will Mr. Fox records of our Archbishop Cranmer Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latymer that when they were brought before the Popes Cardinal Pool● and Queen Maries Commissioners at Oxford sitting joyntly together upon them to convince and condemn them of Heresie they all severally of set purpose put off their Caps and bowed their Bodies and Knees with great reverence and humility to the Queens Commissioners but would neither put off their Caps nor bow their Bodies or Knees to the Popes and Cardinals Commissioners nor shew the least reverence to them because they had abjured and renounced the Popes authority Whereat those proud Commissioners w●re so incensed as taking it for an high contumacy and affront to the Popes Cardinals Persons and Authorities whom they then represented that they not only severally and openly reprehended them for the contempt and expostulated the affront with them but caused their Caps to be pulled off by their Officers These Commissioners putting off their Caps and making reverence when ever the Popes name was read or mentioned without yielding any such reverence at all to the Name of God Christ or Queen Mary And may we not from thence discern and conjecture how much God the Father and God the Holy Ghost are dishonoured slighted contemned yea in some sort un-godded and how far Jesus the Sonne his Name Person are advanced adored above their Names Person when the one of them is so frequently honoured adored worshipped with bowed Heads Knees Bodies and veiled Caps by most and the other two reverenced by none at all as if they were mere Cyphers yea not so worthy honour worship as the Names Persons of Iesus of the Pope or of the Virgin Mary at or to whose Names or Persons they only use to bow their Knees Heads and do obeysance in an extraordinary manner and excesse of veneration whenever they hear their sound Let all Christians then especially those Bishops Clergy-men who are most zealous for this Duty or Ceremony take special care that under the specious pretexts of uncommanded reverence and devotion they relapse not by degrees to Popish Superstition and Idolatry in giving as much or more honour to the very Name of Iesus first and next by the like reason to his Cros● Image Picture Representative breaden body yea to Mary the Mother of Iesus by Bowings Adorations Holy daies Howers Primers Rosasaries Offices Prayers Collects Oblations Indulgencies than to the Person and Deity of Iesus or to the Names Person of God the Father and God the Holy Ghost as they do in the Church of Rome from whose grosse Superstitious Idolatrous detestable Enormities excessive superfluous unnecessary Ceremonies unknown to Christ himself his Apostles and the Primitive Churches Fathers Christians and from all approaches to them Good Lord deliver us Amen and Amen FINIS ERRATA PRay correct these Pres●-errors and omissions p. 15. l. 11. read send p. 24. l. 38. fignant r. signall p. 41. l. 14. r. thing l. 33. r denying it p. 44. l. 4. body p. 55. l. 21. et r. ut p 57. l 8. his r. this p. 58. l. 37 38 r. therefore brief●y p. 59. l. 34. bow his r. bowing this l. 35. at their r. at Emanuel l 36. dele which p. 62. l. 19. more r. much p. 66. l. 31. nor r. not p. 67. l. 9. r. ended they sate down purposely to receive the Lords Supper SITTING p. 68. l. 16. r. Martyrs upon this account l. 23. r. Pos●il p. 87. l. 10. dele and. p. 111. l. 36. r. proper to p. 112. l. 29. r. the● falseness p. 114. l. 11. r. pronounced Margin p. 18. l. 14. r. cun●●● p. 37. l. 11. r. c. 41. a At the end of Lame Giles his Haltings 1630. b 2 Sam 19.14 15 c Octob. 5. 1660 d Pag 16 17 e Novemb. 9. 16●0 f May 20. 1●●● f Here proved p. 65 66 67 68. g Homil. 82. in Mat. c. 26. h En●●ratio in Mat. c. 26. p 26. in Marc. 14. p. 109. in Luc. 22. p. 201. Here p. 67. i Calvin Camererarius Beza in Mat. 26. k See Gul. S●uckius Antiqu Conviv l. 2 c. 34. l Thomas Beacon Here p. 71. m 26 H. 8. c. 1 3 27 H 8. c. 15.28 H. 8 c. 7 14 32 H 8. c. 22 24 26 31 H. 8. c. 1 14 3● H. 8. c. 29 34 35 H. 8. c. 9 19 35 H 8 c. 1. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 1 E 6. c. 2. 1 Eliz. c. 1. ● Eliz. c. 1. Rom. 14.23 o 1 Tim 1.17 Iud. 25. p Exod. 25.40 Isay 33.22 Mat. 4.10 c. 15.9 Iohn ● 20 to 25. c. 15.10 Psal 40 6. Isaiah 1 1● Heb. 8.5 Iam. ● 12 Mat. 28.20 1 Cor. 11.23 q See Centur. Magd. ● to 14. cap. 6. purchas his Pilgrimage r August ad Simpli● l 2. qu. 4. Archbp. Whitguift Hooke● ●p Morton Dr. Boye● Dr. John Bu●ges Paybody with others quoted by them s Num. 61.9 Deut. 29.10 Ezr. 9.15 Mar 11.29 Lu. 28.11 13. Jo. 7.37 Lu. 7.38 Gen. 19.27 Lev. ● 5. ● Chron. 6.12 c. 20.13 Psal. 106.23 (t) Judg. ●0 26 2 Sam. 7.18 2 Chron 17.16 Ezr. 9.4 c. 10 9 Neh. 1.4 Ps 137. 1. Ioah 36. Ier. 15.17 Ezech. 8.1.14 c. 14.1 c. 20. 1. Mat. 26.15 (u) Ps. 95.6 Gen. 24.26 Exod. 4.31 c. 34.8 2 Chron. 29.28 29 30. Neh. 8.6 Dan. 5.7 Lu 17.16 Acts 20.13.14 c. 19.4 c. 22.8 (x) Ps. 6.6 ps 63.6 Ps. 149.5 Hos. 7.14 Gen. 47.31 (y) Ps. 95.6 Deut. 9.18 25. Dan. 6.10 1 Kings 8.54 Lu. 22.41 Acts 7.60 c. 9.40 c. 20.34 c. 21.5 (z) Acts 10.34 35 Rom. 10.11 12 13. Iam. 1.5 6. c. 5.16 (a) 1 Sam. 16.7 1 Chron. 28.9 Iohn 4.23 24. b Rom. 13.1 to 7.1 Pet 2.13.14 20 Ps. 101 ●im 1.9 10. Ezr. 7.26 * See my Sword of Christian Magistracy supported p. 35 to 79. c Acts 15.28 29 30 31. c. 16 4. 1 Cor. 14.34 35 40. Articles of the Church of

and request of all the heads and Professors in the Univers●ty of Cambridge with sundry other eminent English Divines This dirt which they dash us with is as well made of them as thrown by them For it is false that we will have no reverence given to the name of Iesus We say that there ought to be no other honour or reverence given to it than unto the name of Christ of Lord of God And further we say that this suppleness of your knees in bowing at the name of Iesus is nothing but a mask to hide the straitness and numbness of all the joynts of your heart and soul in your submission to the Commandement of Iesus For it is well known that your knees which are Cammel-like in the courtesie which you give to this name are joyntlesse and Elephant-like in your obedience unto his precepts to whom this name appertaineth Again we testifie that this is a will-worship not only troublesom unto the assembly by irksom scraping of the pavement and unseasonable interruption of that which is read or preached but pernicious also in regard of the suspition that it may move of the inequality of the Persons in Trinity whilst a title of the Son being honoured with cap and knee the other Persons have neither bonnet vailed nor foot moved to testifie any honour unto them The vaunt of Scripture for proof of this worship must needs avaunt For this being the only stay and prop which they can pretend out of Scripture makes nothing for it First for that the name of Iesus in this place signifieth not any title or note whereby Christ is called but his authority and whatsoever is glorious and exc●llent within h●m as in divers places it doth likewise appear Secondly for that he understandeth not by the word knee the member of the body whereby they honour but by a borrowed sp●ech the subjection and bending of all creatures unto the infinite power of Christ so that the souls d●parted and Angels which have no knees are subject unto this courtesying as well as men living upon earth If therefore the heavenly Spirits can yield this subjection unto Christ without courtesying at the name of Iesus it followeth that this Exposition of bowing the knee is farr from the meaning of the Apostle in that text Thirdly for that the kneeling and courte●ying here spoken of is performed as well by the wicked and disobedient as by the holy and obedient Spirits it is plain that all kind of reverence being a voluntary and frank worship of Christ after the pr●script of his word is without all warrant of this place This Scripture making nothing ●or them their reason although it were likely cannot bear it out And whereas they would free thems●lves from superstition of●esus ●esus the Son of Sy●ach as to Jesus the Son of GOD whilst the knee j●mping with the very fir●● utterance of the word Iesus prev●nteth ●ft●ntimes the pronunciation of the other words of the Son o● Syrach The very danger ther●fore of communicating of this worship with others which they would have prop●r to our Saviour Christ might easily have admonished them of the ins●ffi●iency of this Service And seeing the name of Iesus in the Son of N●n● and in the high Pri●st of that nam● of whom only we are assured that they were ri●htly thus called is the same with the name ascribed unto Chri●t o●●esus ●esus in their own right but in the right of Christ wh●s● figures and lively representations they were And if oth●rs might hold it yet you which give the same hon●ur to the Image which you give unto the Thing it self cannot be conceived so to doe What will you answ●r to this● that as you are in danger of superstion in the former point so in this you are charged with profannesse who neither cap nor courte●ie at the name of Jesus it● Thus far Mr. Cartwright Dr. Andrew Willet an eminent sound English Divine in an Appendix concerning the name of Jesus ●elates the opinions both of the Papists and Protestants concer●ning this Ceremony in these words The Papists The name of Jesus ought to be worshipped by capping and kneeing therunto by wearing it in their caps and setting it up in solemn places alleadging that of St. Paul That at the name of Iesus all things shall bow Phil. 2.10 Yea they say that Protestants by abolishing the name and image of Christ do make way for Anti-christ The Protestants First The bowing at the name of Jesus as it is used in Popery to bend the knee at the sound thereof is not commanded in this place which sheweth ●spe●ially the subjection of all Creatures of Turks Jews Infidels yea of the Devils themselves to the power and Iudgement of Christ. Secondly Protestants have only taken away the superstitious abuse of the name Jesus Thirdly The kneeling at the name of Iesus is Supe●stitiously abused in Popery For the people stoop only at the sound not understanding what is r●ad and so make an Idol of the Letters and Syllables adoring and worshipping the very Name when they hear or see it And again In sitting and not vailing at the nam● of Christ Emanuell God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and bowing only at the name of Iesus Fourthly Due reverence may be used to our Saviour without any such Ceremony of capping or kneeing neither do we bind any of necessity to use this reverence to the nam● of Iesus as the Papists do who think that Christ cannot be othe●wise honoured neither do we judge and condemn those that do use it being free from Superstition and grounded in knowledge and carefull not to give offence for superstitious and offensive ignorance is not in any case to be defended Fifthly This outward reverence to the name of Iesus was first 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 danger of Popish Superstition in abusing Holy things then of profane Paganism in utterly contemning them and ther●fore there is not such necessary and iust occasion of using this ex●e●nal gesture now as was in former times It was not used of necessity then much lesse now Synodus M●guntina c. 59 An. 1549. not An. 813. as is commonly mistaken this Ceremony not being so antient by 200. years it was thus decreed Pari Religione ad nomen Salvatoris nostri Domini Iesu Christi similiter ad Evangelium Magnificat Benedictus Nunc demittis Gloria in excelsis Gloria Patri caeterasque id genus Divinorum Officiorum partes si● genuum fl●ctione apertione capitis ac totius corporis gestu se componant ut ad ea quae ibi aguntur animam intendere videantur Let men with like Devotion at the name of our Lord and Savi●ur Iesus Christ as likewise at the Gospel the Magnific●t Benedictus Nunc dimittis

the Church And likewise licet in Primitiva Ecclesia c. Although in the Primitive Church this Sacrament was received by the faithfull under both species Tamen c. Yet notwi●hstanding to avoid some Perils and Scandals this ●●stom was introduced afterwards that it should be received by those who consecrated under both spec●es and by Laymen only under the species of Bread Since it is most firmly believed and in no wise to be doubted That the intire Body and Blood of Christ is truly contained as well under the species of Bread as under the species of Wine Wherefore seeing this custom was rationally introduced and very long observed by the Church and Holy Fathers it is to be reputed for a Law which is not lawfull for any to reject or change at pleasure without Authority of ●he Ch●rch Wherefore to say that it is Sacrilegious or unlawfull to observe this Custom or Law ought to be reputed erroneous pertinaciter asserentes oppositum praemiss●rum c. and those who peremptorily assert the co●trary are to be banished and grievously punished as Hereticks by ●he Diocesans of the places or their O●●icials or by the Inquisitors of Heretical pravi●y in Kingdoms and Provinces in which any thing shall peradventure be attempted or presumed against this Decree according to the Canons and lawfull Statutes wholso●ly invented in favour of the Catholick Faith against Hereticks Also this Holy Synod decreeth and declareth upon this matter that processe shall be directed to all the most Reverend Fathers in Chr●st Lords Patria●ch● Primates Archbishops Bishop● and their Vicars in Spi●ituals wherever constituted in which it shall be committed and commanded to them by Authority of this Council under pain of Excomm●nication that they effectually punish those offending against this Decree who communicate the people under both species of Bread and Wine or that exhort or teach them that it ought to be done And if they return to repentance they may be received to the bosome of the Church wholsome Pennance being injoyned to them according to the measure of the ●ffence But such of them who with obstinate minds shall not care to return to repentance are to be restrained and punished by them by Ecclesiastical censures and the ayde likewise of the Secular Arme is to be invocated for this end if need shall require Here this Popish Council sets up the late Custom Power Canons of the Church 1. To alter the very institution of Christ himself the practise of the Apostles and primitive Church Fathers first in two particular Circumstances or Ceremonies observed by them in the celebration of the Lords Supper to wit 1. In the time of receiving it after Supper 2ly In the manner of receiving it after meat but not fasting And ●rom these 2. Alterations in these Circumstances proceeds in the third place to make justifie decree ● Most sacrilegious alteration in the substance of it in taking away one Part thereof to wit the Cup and Wine from all the Laity at one blow upon this absurd heretical Whymsical Reason and notorious untruth laid down as a most certain undubitable truth That the Body and Blood of Christ are by way of concomitance conteined and received under each species of Bread and Wine 2ly It sets up justifies decrees a direct contrary custome of receiving the Lords Supper 1. only in the mo●ning 2. only fasting 3. for Priests only in both kinds 4. for all Laymen under the species of Bread alone without the Cup with a most a●dacious blasphemous peremptory NON OBSTANTE to Christ himself the Apostles and primitive Churches Practise and In●titution 3ly It prohibites Priests and People too either to imitate their examples or institution for the future or to say preach or affirm they ought to imitate them or so much as to speak against any of those their late Cu●tomes and Antichristian Innovations Errors 4ly They excommunicate banish punish all those as HERETICKS and prosecute persecute them with Ecclesiastical censures of all kinds and the power of the secular arm if they once presume in any place by words or deeds to follow the Precept or Pre●ident of Christ his Apo●●les and the Primitive Church or oppose or submit not to their Innovations Inversions and subversions of them 5ly If the terror of those Ce●sures prevail to force conformity to their Innovations in any former Non-conformist whether Priest or ●ayman he must not be received into the bosome of ●he Chu●ch without publick penitence and Pennance proportinable to his offence What effusion of Christian blood Martyrdomes Wars Schismes Tumults Controversies this Canon hath procured throughout Ch●istendome ever since the Histories of Bohemia G●rmany France Spain Italy England the Netherlands Mr. Fox his Acts and Monuments with other Martyrologies and will abundantly inform us Our most gracious Lord God Author of this holy Sacrament of love unity so in●pire direct our Religious indulgent Sover●ign Lord the King his Parliament Council Bishops Ministers with the Spi●it of Wisdome Clemency Moderation and Christian compassion towa●ds the ●ender scrupulo●s consciences of many thousand Ministers and truly loyal d●tifull pious Subject● in this particular that the Alteration of receiving the Lords Supper from its primitive antient usual gesture of sitting practised by Christ his Apostles the primitive Church Ch●istians for many hundred years to Kneeling only by late Custome since Transubstantiation and Adoration introduced by the Church of Rome for the premised ends the total abandoning of Sitting and enjoyning the sole use o● Kneeling to all Ministers and Communicants whatsoever the suspending pious Ministers from their Ministry Benefices inflicting ●cclesiastical Censures on them as Non-conformists Schismaticks for not Kneeling or delivering the Lords Supper to their People sitting or writing preaching in defence of this Ge●ture practised heretofore the dep●iving of those Laymen who refuse to receive Kneeling for the premised Reasons not only of the consecrated Cup as this Popish Council of Constance with the Councils of Basil Se●●io 30. of Trent Sessio 21. c. 1. si●ce that did but even of the Bread too which Romis● Priests indulge to all Laymen and totally secluding those from the Sacrament who out of conscience refuse to take it Kneeling yea Members of Parliament themselves and passing them by with publick contempt as of late when they were all enjoyned to receive the Lords Supper together and that against the expresse words of his Majesties most gracious Declarations to all his loving Subjects of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs then newly published That none shall be denyed the Sacrament of the Lords Supper though they do not receive it Kneeling in the Act of Receiving Which hath given just ca●se o●●ear of greater seve●ity towards them and others by over-rigid imperiou● Pr●lates P●iest● and ●lergy-men when the Parliament is not Sitting Ecclesiastical Cou●ts and new Liturgies confirmed resto●ed to their pristine Vigor and that barely upon p●etext that the Custome of Kneeling