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truth_n	holy_a	lord_n	spirit_n	8,095	5	5.0560	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13963	A triall of subscription by way of a preface vnto certaine subscribers; and, reasons for lesse rigour against non-subscribers. Both modestly written; that neither should offend.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1599 (1599)	STC 24273; ESTC S106214	16,203	40

as on 〈…〉 so on the iudgement of authoritie Let the reasons of remouing other ceremonies bee well considered which be these They obscured the glorie of God they were vnprofitable they blinded the people they turned to vanitie and superstition they were abused by the vnlearned and beseeme not Christes Gospell which is not a ceremoniall lawe as much as Moses was but a religion to serue God not in bondage of the figure or shadowe but in the freedome of the spirit To apply by particulars Piping and chaūting are said to haue displeased God so sore filthilie defyled his holy house and his place of prayer That for them he hath iustlie destroyed manie Nations And setting vp of candles couering of shrynes candlestickes and all monumentes of superstition yea in the glasse windowes not onelie of Churches but of houses too are saide as to be taken away so to be devised by mans fantasies not contrarie but besides scripture And therfore haue not onely no promise of reward but contrariwise great threatninges maledictions of God for that they be thinges tendinge to superstition If all these notes of condemnation may bee sett aswell on ceremonies reteyned as these remoued Then tender consciences which thinke them selues forbidden to be conformable to Idolaters aswell in cutting the haire as in vpholding altars haue at least probable cause to feare how they allow by acte or hand ceremonies reteyned To cōclude this first Reason wherin I am of necessitie longer thē I need to be in the rest I humbly referre to consideration That whereas resolved consciences are vncompellable her Maiestie of her own Princely clemencie did permitt among other Bishop Heath a popish recusant but of conscience not of a trayterous obstinacy to continew Lord Chauncellor Whether it were not cōvenient that faithfull Ministers should continewe their godlie and profitable Ministerie the omission only of ceremonies notwithstāding Prouided that such omission be with peace to others knowledge as it seemeth to be in truth to their own consciences Least otherwise the reuerend Fathers greeue the holy Spirit of GOD by whom they are sealed vnto the day of redemptiō and shew them selues to bee not brethren but Lordes ouer Gods inheritance SECONDLIE let it be supposed that their conscience all the premisses notwithstanding is erronious But let it bee withall considered that the errour is onely in ceremonies which by the nowe Archb. of Yorke since he was a L. Bishop were accounted the blemishes of our Church and in their best regard are but thinges indifferent And therfore the Church is not to be defrauded of the benefite of faithfull Ministers their sound instructions for only omitting such ceremonies and that of conscience with peace Except it be religion to tythe Mynt and Commyn and to neglect the greater things of the Lawe Saint Paul would not by his Apostolicall authoritie restreyne the libertie of disciples touching Mariage because it was an indifferent thing and he straitlie forbiddeth the weake to bee condemned for not eating of all thinges considering the Kingdome of God is not meate nor drinke and wee are to please our neighbour in that that is good to edification So that he wished them cut of who disquieted the Churche by vrginge Circumcision with Christ That they might reioyce in the fleshe of their brethren that is in their conformitie in carnall rites All this beeing true they bee no right followers of blessed Paule who thrust out of the Churche profitable teachers for only omission of indifferent ceremonies Againe if euerie particular Churche maye ordaine change and abolish rites or ceremonies It may bee adiudged no capitall offence for faithfull Ministers in their seuerall charges onely to omitte indifferent ceremonies And the lesse capitall considering vnitie in doctrine and conformitie in diuine service yea all ready obedience otherwise to the Prince State is faithfully obserued Lastly if such onely are openly to bee rebuked as opēly break the traditiōs of the Church through private iudgement and contemptuous wilfulnesse then onely omission and that of conscience with peace deserueth not so publique and extreame punishments as depriuation and suspension For the sentence of singularitie can not with wisedome and equitie bee pronounced against them who not only haue iustified their omissiō with arguments out of Gods worde which are published and thinke they vnaunswered write neuer so manie so long as Master Cartwrights second Replie remaineth vnconfuted but also haue the suffrages of reformed Churches Scottish Dutch and French round about vs which haue abandoned such ceremonies Yea by the obseruation of some Popish though politike there be fewe Protestantes in Englande besides such as depende vpon ecclesiasticall dignities which are not puritans that is such as desire to haue the Church throughly reformed As for cōtemptuous wilfulnes Their not inveying against ceremonies reteyned their brotherlie conversation with other of contrarie iudgement concerning them their patient enduring extremities for such omission their silence when they are suspended and mainteining the vnitie of our church these ceremonies and great affliction for them notwithstandinge besides the said arguments which testify their omission to be meerelie of cōscience doe sufficientlie cleare them of contempt and wilfulnes THIRDLY It may seme to them indeed no great Lawyers a quere Whether their so greeuous punishmentes be iustifyable by the statute which punisheth such as refuse to vse the forme prescribed for Prayers Sacramentes or obstinatelie vse anie other either forme or ceremonie but provideth not against discreet omissiō of the ceremonie though the forme be obserued As for enforcing general subscription all men may see and say It is besides lawe For the ende of the onely Statute for subscription is to Keepe Papistes and other heretiques out of the Ministerie As is evident by these words of the preamble That the Churches of the Queenes Maiesties dominions may bee serued with Pastours of sounde religion Bee it enacted c. Againe the Statute requireth Subscriprion to the Articles of Religion and not to all but such as onely concerne the cōfession of the true Christian faith and the doctrine of the Sacramentes Yea that the exception of some Articles might be more manifest and for no other cause is this word onely inserted Lastlie the Bb. of Canterburie would not haue made a speciall article for the approuing of the booke of common Prayer c. by subscription if such subscription were by that Statute required Nowe further where there is no commaundement there is no transgression wher no transgression no punishment But wishing the tollerating of peaceable and proffitable Ministers and not the hurt of our Church-gounernours I forbeare to shewe what danger they may incurre by lawe who punish faithfull Ministers and loyall subiectes without law for refusing to subscribe further then lawe requireth notwitstanding they willinglie offer to subscribe so farre Onely this I saye