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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10179	Certaine quæres propounded to the bowers at the name of Iesvs and to the patrons thereof. Wherein the authorities, and reasons alleadged by Bishop Andrewes and his followers, in defence of this ceremony, are briefly examined and refuted; the mistranslation of Phil. 2.10.11. cleared, and that tet, with others acquitted both from commanding or authorizing this novell ceremony, here gived to be unlawfull in sundry respects.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1636 (1636)	STC 20456; ESTC S103164	42,726	52

doe Protestants have only taken away the supersticious abuse of the name Iesus Due reverence may be used to our Saviour without any such Ceremonie of capping and kneeling Therefore the 18. Canon which requires only due reverence to be given fullfilled without it too Neither doe we binde any of necessity to use this reverence to the name of Iesus as the Papists doe and our Bishops now also doe as well as they which thinke that Christ cannot otherwise be honoured Neither doe we judge or condemne those that doe use it being free from superstition and grounded in knowledge and carefull not to give offence for supersticious and offensive ignorance is not in any case to be defended Finally this outward reverence to the name of Iesus was first taken up among Christians because as some affirme though without grounde or warrant of all other names it was most derided and scorned of the Pagans and Iewes and therefore they did the more honour it But now there is greater danger of Popish superstition in abusing holy things then of profane Paganisme in utterly contemninge them and therefore there is not such necessary and just occasion of usinge this externall ges̄ture now as was in former times it was not used of necessity then much lesse now Our Prelates therefore should not soe enforce it both upon Ministers and people as they doe nor yet suspend silence imprison those Ministers excommunicate and vexe those people who out of judgement and conscience refuse to use it it being never given in charge or urged upon men in any Visitation Articles till Bishop Andrewes the first Protestant Divine who ever presumed to make it a duty of the Text contray to the Tenent of all Antiquity nor people presented molested or Ministers silenced suspended censured yea fined and imprisoned for not using it or preaching against it as no duty of the Text till this last worst age of ours for ought appeares by any histories Writers or records and that against all Law all reason religion the Statute of Magna Charta c. 29. the Petition of Right with other Lawes enacted for the peoples liberties which cannot be taken from them but by Parliament which never yet prescribed this strang genuflection to them Psal. 119.128 I esteeme all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way AN APPENDIX CHristian Reader I shall for thy better satisfaction concerning the bowing of the naminge of Iesus and clearing it to be no dutie of the Text recite the opinions of 6. our learned Writers concerning this very Point registred in their authorized Workes I shall begin with that famous learned divine William Alley Bishop of Exeter Divinity Lecturer at Pauls in the first yeare of Queene Elizabeth In his Poore Mans Library Tom. 2. Miscellanea Praelectionis 3. 5. London Cum gratia privilegio Regiae Majestatis 1571. fol. 42 43 88 103 104. God the Father gave unto Christ sayeth hee not only the glory of his body but also the glory of his name As it is written by Paul Phil. 2 9 10. Hee gave him a name which is above all names that In so hee ●wice renders it the name of Iesus every knee should bow both of things in heaven of things in earth and of things under the earth These wordes writes hee answering the Papists objecting it for proofe of their Maginarie Purgatorie are not to be understood of the worshipping of God for this worship standeth not in this that the knee should be bowed but doth especially require the spirituall effects and motions of the minde Paul there speaketh of the great authority and power which is committed and given to Christ by which power every creature of Heaven Earth and Hell is made subject unto him even the Divell himselfe with all the wicked and damned Spirits will they nill they are all under his feete and the words which goe before shew this sufficiently for it is said God gave him a name that is above all names that all knees should bow in that name which words if yee will apply unto the divine worship as though they which worship God be in Purgatory Then must you grant also that the Divells and all the damned Spirits doe worship Christ. Nomen Name in this is taken for dignity and honour and so it is used allmost in all tongues especially in the Scriptures it is a familiar speach Paul therefore by this word Name signifieth high and great power to be given to Christ and Christ to be sett in cheifest degree of honour that there may no dignity be found like either in heaven or in earth It is to be wondred of some which doe co-actly restrai●e this Sentence of Paul to the two Syllables of this name Iesus Paul speaketh of the whole Majesty of Christ. For they which doe consider and have no further respect but only to the two syllables of the name doe like as one would discusse and finde out by this word Alexander the great prowesse of the name which Alexander gatt him But I pray you how much more foolish are the Sorbonists which gather by this place of Paul that the knee is to be bowed as often as this name Iesus is pronounced as though this word were a word which hath in the very so●nd all the power included But Paul speaketh heer of the honour which is to be given to the Sonne of God and to his Majesty and not to the Syllables either sounded or written And in this behalfe how much I pray you did the pelting Pardoners deceive the people in selling this name in goulden or painted Papers as though they might obtaine either remission of Sins or else the favour of God thereby Thus much Bishop Alley Reverend Doctor Gervace Babington Bishop of Worcester in his exposition of the Catholike Faith in his Workes London 1622 Pag. 195 196 197. D●termines also thus of this Text and Ceremonie The Papists sayes hee strangely descant of this holy name Iesus but whether such stuffe be worth the touch I referre it to you Surely to rake up this channell were to stirre up a great deale of foule matter For in truth the follies of their Writers he●ein are most monstrous But sayd I follies I might say more and say but right Then hee relates their descants on this name and the strange Misteries they have found in it to make it venerable and worthie cap and knee After which he sayth I thinke the place to the Philippians c. 2 9 10. not well understood hath and doth deceive them Indeed they are easily deceived that will not search for truth and they are justly given over to strong delusions that delight in errour and have not a love to the truth otherwise the place to the Philippians would not be mistaken But looke wee a little at the same and marke from whence the Apostle tooke it and compare spirituall things with spirituall things The

of Iesus or of God himselfe and so make it a notorious Idoll since they bow thus unto his person only in respect and because of this his name since when as they are prostrate in prayer in the very higth of their devotion and their mindes immediately fixed upon the person of God and Iesus they yet give a speciall congee bendinge and inclination of their heads and bodies when the name Iesus is but uttered and so reverence honour and adore it more then either the very person of God or Christ Else what neede this new incuruation at the name when as they are already devoutly prostrate on their knees to the person What warrant is therefore men to put off their Hatts or bow their heads and upper parts only at the naminge of Iesus since this Text precisely requires the bowinge of the knee yea of both knees because of every knee and mens capps hatts heads bodies are not their knees nor yet enjoyned here to bow Whether Popes with pop●sh Councells and Writers Especially some late Iesuites who instile themselves thus from the name Iesus above one 1000. If not 1200. yeares after Christ were not the first broachers inventors and propagators of this ceremonie and that with Charters and indulgences for many dayes sinnes to such who should vouchsafe to use it of purpose to satisfie and countenance their worshippinge of Images Crucifixes the Hoste and other such parts of their Romish Idola●ry Whether did not the Church of England with other Protestant Churches by the Rhemists Stengelius and other Papists Confessions abolish it as superstitious and whether have not our owne with other protestant Writers against the Papists condemned and written against it as no wayes grounded on this Text whether the Papists to drawe on the adoration of this name have not made golden Characters and Images of it Yea instituted both a solemne holy day of the name of Iesus on the 7. of August and Howers of the name Iesus with this Collect or Prayer for all those who devoutly bow unto it God who hast made the most glorious name of thy only begotten Sonne Iesus Christ to they faithfull ones the highest Miracle with the affection of sweetnesse and exceeding dreadfull and terrible to wicked Spirits Mercifullie grannt that all those who devou●ly worship this name Iesus in earth to wit by bowinge at or to it in ●ime of divine Service or Sermons may partake of the sweetnesse of its holy consola●ion in this life and in the Worlde to come may obtaine the joy of endlesse exaltation and rejoycinge by the same our Lord Iesus Christ thy Sonne And whether the present violent pressing and enforcing of this Ceremony which Mr. Hooker Doctor Fulke and Doctor Will●t say no man is or ought to be forced or enjoyned to use in the selfsame yea in a farr more earnest manner then ever the Papists urged it upon any by Fyninge imprisoninge suspendinge deprivinge such Ministers and others who refuse to use it against all Law all Iustice the Statute of Magna Charta Petittion of Right tendes not only to the erectinge of Popery and bringinge in of bowinge to Altars Images the Hoste Transu●●stantiation and Masse as late experience and the turning of Communion Tables to Altars or Altaringe every where manifests Whether bowinge at the name of Iesus be not divine worship and adoration given immediately either to the person or name of Iesus or to both If so as the Papists the Bishop and all those graunt who make it a dutie of the Text whether it be not direct superstition and willworship and so to be abandoned of us since doubtlesse it is not enjoined or prescribed by this or any other Text of Scripture and whether the misalleaginge and mistranslating of Phil. 2.9 10 11. of purpose to justifie this Ceremony of bowing and capping at and to the name Iesus in time of Divine Service and Sermons be not an expresse willfull perverting corrupting yea abusing of the Scripture and so a dangerous soule-condemning sinne 2. Pet. 3.16 Acts. 13.10 11. Rev. 22.18 19. which every good Christian is bounde in Conscience to resist And the bowing at the very naming of Iesus in the midst or beginninge of a Sentence read or preached before we heare or knowe what followes a rash inconsiderate disorderly Ceremony or Superstition and so prohibited 1. Cor. 14.33 40. causing men oft times to neglect or forget the sence of what is read unto them to bow at the names of Iesus surnamed Iosua Iustus and the like yea at the very name of Bar-Iesus the Sorcerer to and at which Mr. Cozens with many more at Durham most devoutly bowed no lesse then twice in one day one after another such was their grosse supersticious dotage and confoundinge adoration and the acte of outward worship and bowing with hearing and reading of Gods word which are distinguished from it Whether Bishop Andrews words The knee that will not bow at the name of Iesus shall he strucken with somewhat that it shall not be able to bow and for the name they that will doe no honor to it by bowing to it at it when it is recited when time of necessitie comes shall receive no comfort by it be not a meere fabulous Bug-beare and groundlesse Commination warranted by no Scripture nor Example Much like that Lyinge Legend of Ignatius the Martyr registred in no auncient or approved Author but in some late fabulous F●iers That Iesus est amor meus was founde written in golden Characters in his hart not in his knees which some now publish as an undoubted verity to drawe on cappinge and bowinge to the name of Iesus at which none write that this Ignatius ever bowed though he loved aud honoured it as much as any and so makes more against then for these Cringers Whether the Emperor Constantine with other of his Successor Emperors and their Christian Souldiers did not engrave the name of Christ in Characters both in their Ensignes and Helmets to testifie what honour and reverence they yeilded to this title of his from whence they where stiled Christians Acts. 11.16 Chap. 26.28 1. Pet. 4.16 Ephes. 3.14 15. And did not every Citizen of Antioch when their Citie was grievously shaken with an Earthquake write the name of Christ over their Doores and so escaped Vnusquisque Civium Christi nomen pro foribus inscribens Eo modo terrae motum dispulit quum Deus religioso cuidam homini oraculo haec verba inscribere foribus praecepisset Christus nobiscum state when as we reade of no such honour then given or drawne by them to the name Iesus And doth not this inferre that the Emperors and Christians in those times gave as much reverence and honour to the name Christ as Iesus if not farre more and so it ought now to be as much capped and bowed to as it what