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A26752	A discourse on my Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's and my Lord Bishop of London's letters to the clergy touching catechising, and the sacrament of the Supper with what is required of churchwardens and ministers in reference to obstinate recusants : also a defence of excommunication, as used by the Church of England against such : preached March the 9th and 16th in the parish church of St. Swithins / by William Basset ...	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1684 (1684)	Wing B1052; ESTC R9117	26,279	41

Declaration I have that Charity as to believe did Men well study what the Church injoyns and her Reasons and Motives why they would be asham'd of their own scruples 2. Obj. Some are against the Administration of it by a set Form of Prayer for Christ Blessed the Bread c. but the form of Blessing is not set down Ergo he never intended it should be given by set forms but that all should be left to their own conceptions in imitation of him We answer That had he repeated the Sacrament he might perhaps have used the same form again For he that gave a form to his Disciples and that twice and did himself Pray the same words three times in the same day Mat. 26. 39. 42 44. cannot in reason be supposed to be against a form in the Sacrament If what Christ hath not done in this case be so obliging what he hath done in the like case must be much more obliging because there is a fairer Expression of his Will in this than can be supposed in that therefore if because Christ hath not given us a form for the Sacrament the Church may not appoint one it must needs be that since he hath given us a General Form and indeed a Common Prayer suited to all Times Persons and Places that therefore we may use no other Therefore while they argue against a Form they do but put us in a way to establish that most perfect Form Christ hath taught us to the exclusion of all other Some private Teachers have at this very Sacrament as well as at Baptism used the same Prayer without any material Alterations of which some instances may be given now this though of their own making is as much a Form as that appointed by the Church yet these Men never judge this unlawful why then should they judge the other so Unless because injoyned which brings the dispute to another Question viz. from Forms to the injunction of 'em Even Presbyterian Writers as Calvin Jenkins c. tell us that where there is the Word taught or as some sound Doctrine and Administration of the Sacraments there is a true Church Ergo according to them the manner of Blessing is not material to the being of a Church The truth is Christ hath given us the Substance but hath left the Circumstances to the Church as when how c. and for several Reasons the Church thought fit to appoint very early Forms and Luther tells us that they of the Reformation still retain'd the Publick Prayers and Administration of the Lord's Supper He speaks this by way of Purgation and saith that their Church is falsly accused in that it is said she hath abolished the Missa This is one difference he makes between themselves and that Spirit of Phanaticism which he elsewhere saith is crept into the World that delights in corners c. And such was the sense of the Augustane Confession presented to the Emperor Charles the Fifth by the Duke of Saxony in the Name of the Protestant Princes c. of Germany Therefore these Men do reproach and condemn not only the first Reformers from Popery beyond the Seas whom they pretend to admire and call the Lights of the World But our Reformers and that Reformation too which even themselves are apt to speak the greatest Mercy that God hath done to his Church in these Nations And indeed such scruples serve only to evidence to what Unreasonable excesses a wild and roving spirit is apt to run Men and how destructive a lawless Liberty is to all Religion and Government in the World And if any Form for the Communion be allowed there can be no Objection against that appointed by our Church for however some Parts of our Liturgy be cavill'd at this hath escap'd as free as any For those Men who put in their Objections against the Common Prayer to the Convocation called by His Majesty An. Dom. 1662. had nothing material in this Service to fix upon but that they may say something they plead a little impropriety of speech in the Prayer after Receiving viz. may be fulfill'd with thy Heavenly Grace Which is but a composition signifying satisfactory measures of Divine Blessings a being filled full with thy Heavenly grace While Mr. Baxter himself hath acknowledged that he hath sometimes heard such Extempore Prayers from his Non-Conforming Brethren that no wise man could say Amen to ' em 3. Object Is mixt Communions To which we plead that our Saviour who knew the hearts of all men gave the Sacrament to Judas even after he had Covenanted to betray him For Luke 22. 14. he sat down with the Twelve of which number Judas was one V. 19. 20. he institutes and gives this Sacrament which done he faith V. 21. The hand of him that betrays me is with me on the Table Therefore Judas was present when it was given and consequently did receive with the rest unless excluded or suspended by our Lord which cannot be supposed because 1. There is no mention of any such thing and we ought not to presume beyond what the Text may seem to bear And 2. When our Saviour said that one of them should betray him V. 21. they are surpriz'd and inquire Master is it I But such an Exclusion and such a Declaration immediately upon it would have given 'em a just suspition who it was The Condition of the Church in this World is mixt and therefore is compared to a field of wheat full of tares which Argument Calvin speaks largely to in his Institutions against the Anabaptists and Novatians It is contray to that Right which Baptism gives to every Person till suspended by the Minister or excluded by the Church Therefore though the impure Corinthian was meritoriously Excommunicate upon the commission of the Fact yet he was not legally shut out till it was made the Act of the Church till which time he had a Right still to come For which reason St. Paul was so pressing to that Church to purge out that leaven And in the interim we do not find any Precept or Example of a Separation from the Communion of that Church because that Person was not yet shut out Nor from the Church of Galatia where there was such a defection to Mosaick Rites that St. Paul saith I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain None from Laodicaea or Thyatira And therefore what Texts soever they found this Opinion on are abused for we must not expound any place contrary to the Practice of Christ his Apostles and the Churches of God These Men make themselves more pure than Christ himself and greater Precisians than the very Apostles It is a most Pharisaical Doctrine that saith to others like the Hypocrite in the Prophet stand off for I am Holier than thou The wickedness of this conceit will appear from hence viz. 1. That it adds to the Commands of God for which cause Calvin saith that these Men are rigidiores