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A36345 A form of reconciliation of lapsed Protestants and of admission of Romanists to the communion of the Church of Ireland / written by the Right Reverend Father in God Anthony Lord Bishop of Meath. Dopping, Anthony, 1643-1697. 1691 (1691) Wing D1911; ESTC R36097 18,380 90

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who has put these good resolutions into your heart give you grace and strength to perform them through Jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ After this let the party read his abjuration openly in the Church if he can read and if not let some one of the standers by read it for him and at the end of it let him be asked by the Priest whether he assents to the contents of it Then say let us pray O Most merciful God who according to the multitude of thy mercies dost so put away the sins of those that truly repent that thou remembrest them no more open thine eyes of mercy upon this thy servant who most earnestly desires pardon and forgivness renew in him whatsoever has been decay'd either by the fraud of the devil or by his own carnal will and frailty preserve and continue him in the unity of the Church and restore him to thy peace and favor in heaven upon our admission of him into the communion of thy Church on earth Give him Grace to perform the good Resolutions that he has made and let the sense of his former frailty in departing from the truth have so strong an influence upon his Soul as to make him embrace it the more firmly for the time to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. MOst Gracious God and Merciful Father receive we beseech thee this wandring Sheep into thy Fold which by the snares of the Tempter the frailty of his nature has gone astray from it pardon his sin in so doing accept of his Repentance for it let thy Fatherly pitty be extended towards him and receive him into the Arms of thy Mercy now that he desires to return into the way of truth that so the Enemy may not triumph in the ruine of thy Servant but that the Church may rejoyce like an Indulgent Mother at the conversion and return of her lost Child through Jesus Christ our Lord. ¶ Then let the Priest stand up the Penitent kneeling and lay his hand on his head saying BY vertue of the Authority to me committed by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I do readmit this person into the communion of the Church and restore him to the prayers of the Church and the participation of the Eucharist and to all other Rites and Symbols of communion in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen Let us pray MOst Gracious God and merciful Father who hast vouchsafed to call this thy Servant from the darkness of error to the light of thy truth and to recall him into the bosom of the Catholick Church send down upon him we beseech thee the the Holy Ghost the Comforter and daily encrease in him the gifts of thy Holy Spirit the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding the Spirit of Counsel Ghostly strength the Spirit of Knowledge and true Godliness and fill him O Lord with the Spirit of thy holy fear now and for ever Amen ¶ After this let the Minister make some short exhortation to him on these heads 1st The nature of the Promise and Obligation that he has entred into 2ly the necessity of performing a promise that has been made so publickly and upon such solemn occasion 3ly The shame danger hazard of breaking it The Form of Abjuration I H. E. of S. in the Parish of T. and Dioces of M. Do acknowledge my self to have been an unworthy Member of the Reformed Church of Ireland until by the treachery of my own sinful heart and for sinister ends and worldly respects and especially for I forsook the same I am truly sensible of my great sin in so doing and am heartily sorry for the same and do for the future renounce all the errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome as they stand determined by the Council of Trent and are at present taught and practised in that Church and do resolve by the grace of God to live and die in the unity of the Catholick faith in the Communion of the Church of Ireland as it is reformed from the errors and corruptions of Popery Intestimony whereof I do hereunto put my hand this day of 1691. This Abjuration should be signed by the party and witnessed and then delivered to the Priest that it may be entred into the Parish Registry then let it be sent to the Bishop of the Diocess that it may remain on Record on his Registry also If the lapsed person has done injury to any of his Protestant Neighbours by robbing them of their goods he ought not to be admited till he makes restitution or professes a willingness to it A Form of Admission of Romanist's into our Communion First WHensoever any person that has been educated in the communion of the Church of Rome desires to forsake it and to embrace the communion of our Church it is fit that he should give notice of his intentions some time before to the Minister of the Parish wherein he lives to the end the Minister may be satisfied in the motives of his change and spend some time with him in convincing him of the errors and corruptions of Popery If the person be ignorant and uninstructed in the common principles of Religion contained in the Creed the Lords prayer and the Ten Commandments as I am afraid many of the Papists are the Minister ought to spend the more time upon him First in instructing him in the common agenda credenda of Religion and then descending from them to the doctrines of the Church of Rome and shewing him the errors of them out of the word of God For it is in vain to gain a Proselyte to our Church that is not acquainted with the common grounds of Christian Religion that are owned by all Chistians as necessary to Salvation the admitting any person as a member of a distinct communion doth necessarily presuppose him instructed in those principles of Religion in which the Christians of all communions are agreed But if he be better educated and instructed in the grounds of Religion the Minister of the parish need only examin him in the reasons and motives of his intended change And if he finds him able to give a good account of his Change Then let him ask him in private whether he has had any hand in the Rappareeing of his Neighbours and if he confesseth he hath let him lay the danger of that sin before him and acquaint him with the necessity of making restitution and let him not be admitted till he makes some restitution if he be able or where he is not profess a willingness to do it 2ly Let him appoint him to attend him at the Church door the next Lords Day after notice given as formerly and then let the person that desires to be admitted stand at the Church door and say in the presence of some of the Congregation Sir I have formerly been a Member of the Church of Rome and being sensible of my sin and