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A69915	A plea for the Non-Conformists giving the true state of the dissenters case, and how far the Conformists separation from the Church of Rome, for their Popish superstitions and traditions introduced into the service of God, justifies the Non-Conformists separation from them for the same : in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his sermon, called, Scrupulous conscience, inviting hereto : to which is added, A parallel scheme of the pagan, papal and Christian rites and ceremonies : with a narrative of the sufferings underwent for writing, printing and publishing hereof / by Thomas De Laune.	De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.; Danson, Thomas, d. 1694.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Eikōn tou thēriou.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Narrative of the sufferings of Thomas Delaune.	1684 (1684)	Wing D893; Wing D891; Wing D892; ESTC R12757	93,215	122

printed respecting a Doubtful Conscience has loudly enough call'd all such as were Dissatisfy'd about some Rites and Ceremonys to Examine the Reasons on both sides Others being silent I obey'd you in that particular not meerly to wrangle for the Encounter is unequal betwixt a Man so Eminent as you are and so mean a Person as I am but that an occassion may be given in compliance to what you desired to conclude Controversys of this nature If meerly for such Obedience I must be punished I know not how nor in what manner is there not a new way of conquering Scrupulous Consciences unheard of in the Holy Scriptures Started by some certain Ringleaders I purposed from Holy Writ and approved Writers to Examine what we ought to judg of these things From that light of our paths from that Lamhorn Psal 119. 105. I gathered some Reasons against those various and multiplied Errours which have crept into the Church For that only thing am I brought to a Prison where there is nothing amiable Whether Arguments of that kind will prevaile to prove the Suppositions in your Sermon Let the Supream Judg Determine Or whether any of the doubting persons can that way be Compelled into the Spiritual Sheep-fold judg you There 's nothing against the Kings Majesty nothing about the Civil Government nothing against the Peace of this Monarchy there asserted The only dispute is about the original of Rites and Ceremonys and of some things which under a shew of Truth though not Righteously are charged upon Doubting persons What the Court will do with me I know not the will of the Supreme Father be done Inward and outward peace in this and Everlasting Peace in the World to come to all such as worship the Saviour of mankind according to his word is Pray'd for by THO. DELAUNE I Desire you to Return me some Answer becoming a Divine by my Beloved Wife as you have promised To this Letter you answered by word of Mouth to my Wife for I had no answer in writing that you lookt upon your self Vnconcerned as not being mention'd in the sheets you saw with the Recorder To satisfy which doubt I sent you a Third Letter with the First sheet of the Book I am imprison'd for which was a plain Demonstration that it was an answer to your Call you know the Letter was thus January the 14th 1683. Sir Whereas in Answer to my two Letters you said to my Wife that my Papers no way concern'd you viz. Such as I am indicted for To satisfy you with respect to that matter I here send you the first Sheet and leave you to consider whether in pure generousity you are not oblig'd to procure a Prisoner whose Obedience to you made him so his liberty I am Sir your humble servant THO. DELAUNE I appeal to your Consience whether I had not some reason to expect some return to these Applications But I had none to any purpose and that too but in a few words by my wife I had some thoughts that you would have performed the Office of a Divine in visiting me in my place of Confinement either to Argue me out of my Doubts which your promis'd SCRIPTURE and REASON not a Mittimus and Newgate could easily do To the former I can yeild To the latter it seems I must This is a severe kind of Logick and will probably dispute me out of this World as it did Mr. Bampfield and Mr. Ralphson lately who were my dear and excellent Companions in Trouble and whose absence I cannot but bemoan as having lost in them a Society that was truly pious truly sweet and truly amiable But I hope the God of mercy will supply the want by a more immediate influence of Comfort then what can be obtained at second hand On the tenth of December two Bills were found against Mr. Ralphson and me by the Grand-jury of London whose Names are as followeth Tho. Vernon Tho. Goddard Will. Gore Will. Wills Rand. Manning John Martin Richard How 's Tho. Hodges Joseph Woolhead Josias Ewth John Paine William Fazakerly Jos Sparrow Joh. Reendal David Pool Ri. Beauchamp Rob. Minories On the 13 th day of the same Month we were called to the Sessions-House in the Old-Bayly And then our Indictments were read in English to which we pleaded not Guilty We desired Copies of the said Indictments and time to make our Defence till next Sessions which the Court after some pause granted The substance of the Indictment against me was thus Iuratores pro Domino Rege supar Sacram suum presentant quod Tho Delaune nuper Delondon Gener ligeanc su c. In plain English thus as to the material part of it The Jurors for our Lord the King upon their Oath Present that Thomas Delaune late of London Gent. Not regarding his due Allegeance but contriving and intending to disquiet and disturb the peace and common Tranquillity of this Kingdom of England c. To bring the said Lord the King into the greatest hate and contempt of his Subjects Machinating and farther intending to move stir up and procure Sedition and Rebellion and to disparage and Scandalize the Book of Common Prayer c. On the 30th day of November in the 35th of the King at London in the parish of St. Botolph without Bishops Gate in the Ward of Bishops-Gate aforesaid by Force and Armes c. Vnlawfully Seditiously and Maliciously did Write Print and Publish and Caused to be Written Printed and Published a certain False Seditious and Scandalous Libel of and concerning the said Lord the King and the Book of Common Prayer aforesaid Intituled a Plea for the NONCONFORMISTS In which said Libel are contained these false Fictions and Scandalous sentences following viz. The Church of Rome and England also are great Transgressors to presume to vary from Christs precept in altering or adding to the form of words exprest by Christ in this 11 of Luke for so they have done They say forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them who trespass against us when there are nosuch words in Christ prayer his words are forgive us our Sins or Debts for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us and says the Indictment again in another part of the said Libell are contained these false Fictions Seditious and scandalous Sentences following viz. And may we not say that in these following particulars we do Symbolize with Idolatrous Rome herein First by injoyning and imposing this here the Indictment makes an Innuendo viz. Meaning the Book of Common Prayer aforesaid as a set form as they do with penaltys contrary to the Scripture Secondly by an often Repetition of the same form in the same exercise three or or four times at least in so much that in Cathedrall Churches it is said or sung ten or twelve times a day contrary to Christs Express words that when we pray we do not make vain Repetitions as the Heathens doe for they think they shall be heard for their

of the Rites Service and Ceremonies Their was another Mass which was called the Mass of Ambrose a ridiculous thing which they afterwards fathered upon him different from Gregory's whereof we read in after times and there was great contention which Mass should be received into the Churches Which when Pope Adrian who was Anno 796. saw he was put to his shifts and said he would refer it ●o the Will of God whether he would by any visible sign Approve the Mass of Gregory 〈◊〉 of Ambrose So these two Books ●ere 〈◊〉 together upon the A●●ar in St. Peter's Church and 〈◊〉 called upon God to shew which of the two be approved the Doers were shut all Night and the next Morning when they returned into the Church the Book of Ambrose was found lying as it was laid down and the other was all torn and dispersed through the Church The Pope maketh the Comment that the Mass of Ambrose should lye untouched and the Mass of Gregory should be used through the World And so ●e did Authorize and Command that it should be used in all Churches and Chappels which Charles the Great did second Commanding that only to be used and Ambroses to be Burnt Gregory the first Ordained the Letanies or Supplications saith Platina The Responses and Gradual was given by Pope Gregory saith Pol. Virgil. The Collects Ordinary as saith Durandus were Ordained by Pope Gregory the other Collects added by sundry Popes as Cassandar in Liturgia cap. 21. He made the Offices of the Church and disposed the Nights and Days Antiphones or Singing-Service he polished the Rites of the Mass and renewed its Canon he made the Introitus to the Mass with the Particles he Commanded the Kyrieeleison and Hallelujah to be Sung He ordered the singing of Psalms the Letanies and Processions Balaeus Cent. 1. p. 62. sect 32. The Prescript Number of Psalms and Lessons was brought into the Church by Gregory the 7 th Anno 1073. saith Durandus The Epistles and Gospels Platina gives to Pope Damasus Anno 384. Pope Anastasius brought in Standing at the Gospel Anno 400. as saith Platina and Pol. Virgil. Austin Confess lib. 9. shews that the Latine Church had no Singing-Service that was brought into our Ceremonies saith Polidore Virgil from the old Heathen de Invent. Rer. lib. 6. c. 2. who were wont to Sacrifice with Symphony witness Livies l. 9. The Primitive Church had no Altars Pope Sylvester was the first Author of their Consecration Bellar. de Verb. Dei l. 4. c. 3. Anno 334. Then consequently no Bowing to them nor Kneeling before them being all Novels As little can you find the English Festivals in Antiquity The Centurists tells us Observandum est Apostolos Apostolicos viros neque de Paschate neque de aliis quibuscunque festivitatibus legem aliquam constituisse It is to be observed that neither the Apostles nor any Apostolick men have given us any Law for the observation of Easter or any other Feast whatsoever Magd. Cent. 2. Chap 6. p. 119. They also tell us out of Origen That it was not lawful for Christians to observe the Feasts or Solemnities either of Jews or Gentiles Cent. 3. p. 137. The Council of Laodicea in the 37 Can. forbad the Heathenish or Jewish Feast Non oportet a Judaeis vel Hereticis Feriatica quae mittuntur accipere nec cum eis dies agere Feriatos The Canons of the Ancient Councils forbad to keep the Pagan Feasts and to deck their Houses with green Boughs and Bay leaves as they did in the Kalends of January Con. Affr. Can. 2. Tolet. 4. Can. 5. Brac. 2. c. 7. The Festivals observed by the Ancients were not accounted more holy than other days Jerome on Matth. 5. saith Non quod celebrior sit dies illa qua conv●nimus The Waldenses The Ancient Fathers of the Protestants held that they were to rest from labour upon no day but the Lord's day Aeneas Sylvius The Rites and Geremonies of Marriage as expressed in the Office of Marriage in the Liturgy do not appear to have been in use in those Primitive times It being decreed by Pope Julius and Ser●●ius about the middle of the 4 th Century That all Marriage should pass the Benediction of a Priest upon penalty of Sa●riledge The Office being taken from the Papists and those very Restraints laid upon Marriage at what seasons People may Marty and when not are taken out of the Romish Rubrick Pope Clement having ordained that from Septuage sima till Easter from Rogation till Whitsunday and from Advent to Epiphany Marriage should be prohibited and which Doctrine of Devils is translated from their Rubrick to ours As for Bowing to the Altar and to the East and at Entrance into Churches and Temples they are Reverences which seem to be fetch'd from an Elder date viz. from the Pagan Idolaters and from whom the superstitious Ancients and Papists had them and we from them Dr. Willer in his Synop. Papisi p. 492 493. saith That Bowing at the Altar and Name of Jesus are superstitious Idolatries As for Ecclesiastical Orders and Officers of the Lord Arch-Bishops Lord Bishops Deans Arch-Deacons 〈◊〉 and the Supremacy exercised one over another in the Church of England they are so far from having the stamp of Primitive Antiquity that they are not to be found therein at least for the three or four first Centuries Dr. Stillingfleet in his Irenicum p. 177. tells us after this manner viz. That whether any shall succed the Apostles in superiority of Power over Presbyters or all remain governing the Church in an equality of Power is no where determined by the Will of Christ in the Scripture which contains his ROYAL LAW and therefore we have no reason to look upon it as any thing flowing from the Power and Authority of Christ as Mediator and so not necessar●ly binding to Christians And further assures us That Episcopal men cannot shew by the word of God neither by the practice of the Apostles nor so much as by the PRIMITIVE CHURCH that a Minister of Jesus Christ hath had any superintendency over several private Churches or that a Bishop hath ordained Ministers by his sole and pure Authority as is now practised in England or that he who is not naturally Invested with any Authority should have the power to Delegate others and much more Secular persons And if any would be better satisfied herein there are two late pieces which may fully do it viz. one by Dr. Owen in a Book called The Order and Communion of Evangelical Churches and the other in a Book called No Evidence for Diocesan Churches and Bishops in the primitive times The Primitive Fathers were against dedicating of Churches to Saints and Angels Austin saith If we build a Church of Stones or Wood unto any most excellent Angel are we not accursed and anathematized from the Truth and from the

St. Paul for the Temple of Diana so it was at London St. Nicolas for Neptunes And all Saints for PANTHEON They build new Temples East and West and Worship as the Heathens did towards the East And do by their Priests consecrate first the Ground Then the Temple upon which it stands Altars are erected in them and sumptiously adorned and Statues placed on them with lighted Candels which they Worship a Feast of Dedication is annually kept to the Honour of the Saint the Temple is consecrated to which is spent with Revelling and Jollity And this as Gods House they pay great Reverence to There having been no conse crated place or holy Ground since the dissolution of the Temple by Gods appointment to build Temples or holy places for Worship The true Worshipers who worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth are truly his Chnrch and House where ever they meet be it in Wood Field House or Barne so saith the Apostle with all who in every place call upon the Lord Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. Whose House are ye Heb. 3. 8. The most high dwelling not with Temples made with Hands as saith the Prophet What House will ye build me Or what is the place of my Rest Who Filles Heaven and Earth Act. 7. 48 49. No Altars and Candels Worshiping East and West or Feasts of Dedications in Christs Church being all Pagan and Papal inventions 5ly The times of their Worship 5dly The times of their Worship 5thly In respect to the time of Worship They divided their days into Fasti feast days Profaesti Working days and Intercisi hafe holy days The feast days they dedicated in the Names and to the Honour They divided their days into Feasts Fasts Vigils and Working days as their Kalender mentions their Feasts dedicated in the Names the And to the honour of The firist day of the Week is the Christians Sabbath and the only standing time for Rest and Worship to be Observed Holy unto the Lord The other six days being appointed of their Gods werev ery many some of their Capital Feasts were these viz. Their Saturnalia kept several days together in December with Eul-game Mrs. of Misrule Mascarading and all Debocheries adorning their Temples and Houses with green Leaves and Boughs The Epiphony from the appearing of their Gods Their Proserpinalia or Feasts of Candles In February Their Palelia or Shepherds Feast on Midsumer-day Their Florialia on May-day with great Jollity by the young People of both sexes scattering Boughs and Flowers and Dancing about May-poles Their Ambervalia or Procession when they begged a Blessing on their Gods upon their Fields and Fruits The Feast Easter to that Goddess in April They had their Bacchanalia their Ceralia their Venalia their Panathenea a Feast to all their Gods Canonical houres for Sacrifice and Devotion and a Jubile or yeare of Rest their Saints or Gods are very many some of their Capital Feasts are these viz. Christmas their Saturnalia Observed directly both in time and manner as theres was with Eule-games Mrs. of Misrule Mascarad's Debocheries adorning their Houses and Temples with green Leaves and Boughs The Epiphony Feast as ther 's Also Candlemas the purification of the Virgin Mary In February as their Proserpinalia or Candle Feast Ther St. John Baptist on Midsomer-day as their Palelia Also Philip and Jacob on May-day kept as their Floras Feast time and manner Also procession or Perambulation in Rogation Week time and manner with their Ambervalia Also the Feast of Easter time name and manner They have their Whitsonales for their Bacchanalia Their Allsaints for their Panathenea Canonical houres for Service and a year of Jubile for Rest for Labour As the forth Commandment Orders viz. Remember to keep Holy the Seventh Day Six Days shalt thou Labour and do all thy Work The Pope that changer of times saith Thou shalt Labour but Three or Four Days the rest are his Holy days No set times either for Feasts Fasts or Vigils are appointed by Christ which are only to be Observed as accasion is Administred All their Holy days and Festivals celeberated in Honour of the Papal and Pagan Gods Numens or Daemons are an abomination to the Lord and a great oppression to the Nations God requiring but a 7th part of time for his publick Worship and Service and they exact half if not two Thirds of it for the Worship and Sevice of their Idols 6thly Their Priesthood 6thly Their Priesthood 6thly In it's Ministry They had Superior Priests viz. Flamins and Arch-flamins for Sacerdotall service in their Provinces and Diocess and Inferior Priests distinguished by dignify'd names Tonsures Orders Habits the dignifyed Priests were those who attended on the Capitall Temples as the proper Priests of Jupiter Appollo Minerva Vesta Diana Venus Cybel some of which were called Dialia Martialia Querinalia Augures Saliens Fecialls Their Priests were either superior viz. Bishops and Arch-Bishops for Sacerdotall service in Provinces and Diocess or Inferior distingushed by dignifyed Names Tonsures Orders Habits the dignify'd clergy were those who attended the Capitall or Cathedrall Churches as Deans Chaptrs Prebends Arch Deacons And the more inferior Priests who have care of Sacred Celebrations in the cures or Parishes calledi Cureats Parsons In Christ Church there are only two sorts of Offices and Officers by his New Testament appointment viz. Elders and Deacons the Elders to administer Ordinances and Govern the Church     And Deacons to make Provision for to visit and take care of the Poor none of the Minestry distinguished from the Layety by Habits or Tonsuers which are all Pagan and Papal Inventions and Abominations The prohibition of And more inferior Priests who had the care of the sacred Celebrations in the cures called Curiones there were proper Habits for all the Priesthood and particular Vestments for their Divine Service viz. Albes Tunicles Amicts they had Tonsures and shavings so the Priests of Isis Diana Jupiter divers orders of Priests whereof most Caelebate to whom Marriage was prohibited as the Priests of Vesta Minerva Appollo and those of Cybil whowere castrated Elected and concecra ted according to the Ritual of Numa and put in to their cures by the Pontifex maintained according to their Ecclesiastical constitution the Pontifs by Annates Oblations and the Priests by Benesices Offerings Obsequies c. Vicars Deacons answearing their Curiones they have proper Habits for the Clergy and particular Vestments for their holy ministrations viz. Surplices or Albes Chasubles or Tunicles Vailes or Amicts to which they add Coaps Ephods Miniples Zones c. They have Tonsuers or Shaveings of their Orders and most whereof Caelebiate to whome marriage is forbiden Elected and consecrated according to the Popes canons and put into their Cures by his Authority maintained according to their Ecclesiastical customes the Popes by A●nates Oblations c. The Priests by Benefices Offerings Oblations Obseques c. Marriage being a Doct●●ne of Devils Elected and Consecrated according to