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A30330	A collection of several tracts and discourses written in the years 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685 by Gilbert Burnet ; to which are added, a letter written to Dr. Burnet, giving an account of Cardinal Pool's secret power, the history of the power treason, with a vindication of the proceedings thereupon, an impartial consideration of the five Jesuits dying speeches, who were executed for the Popish Plot, 1679.; Selections. 1685	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5770; ESTC R214762	83,014	140

The Third Branch of the Christian Religion is the Worship of God and that chiefly the use of the Sacraments For the Worship of God let it be considered that we pray to God and praise him only for all these things about which the Scriptures command us to address to him Our worship is in a Language that all the people understand and so are edified by it according to St. Paul who has enlarged so much on this matter in a whole Chapter that it is strange how any who acknowledg the Authority of that Epistle can deny it Our Liturgies are such that the Romanists cannot except to any part of them Our ceremonies are few and these be both decent and useful So that in all the parts of our Worship we do so exactly agree to the Rule of the Scriptures and the Primitive Church that they cannot blame us for any one Rubrick or Collect in it But for their worship It is in a Language not understood by the people who to be sure can receive no Edification from that they understand not nor can they say Amen to such Devotions This is as it were in spite to St. Paul who took special care that as long as his Authority was in any esteem in the Church such an abuse should never creep into it Nor is there a shadow of Authority for such a practice from the Primitive Church in which for many Ages the Worship was still in the vulgar Tongues Next their Worship is so overcharged with many Rites and Ceremonies that the seriousness of Devotion must needs be much alloyed by them A great part of the Worship is so whispered as if they were muttering Spells Their Books of Exorcisms are the most indecent things that can be full of Charms and other ridiculous Rites And for the Pontifical and Ceremonial of their Church they may match with Heathenism for Superstition Their Offices are so various and numerous and the Rubricks seem so full of disorder that a man may as soon learn a Trade as know all the several parts of them How this can be reconciled to the Simplicity of the Gospel or the Worshipping God in spirit and truth may be easily judged by those who can compare things For the Sacraments we have the Two that Christ Instituted Baptism and the Lords Supper And for Pennance Confirmation Ordination and Marriage we have them also among us as they were appointed by Christ and his Apostles though we do not call these Sacraments For Extream Unction we find no warrant at all for it as a sacred Ordinance and we are sure the Church for many Ages did not think of it For Baptism it is done among us in the very Form our Saviour appointed and this they do not deny But among them they cannot be assured that they are at all Baptized since according to the Doctrine of the necessity of the Intention of the Priest to the Being of a Sacrament they cannot be assured of it for an Atheistical Priest can spoil their Baptism so that unless they can be certain of that which is impossible for them to know I mean the Intention of the Priest they are not sure that they were ever truly Baptized But for the Lords Supper if any person will so far trust his own Reason and senses as to compare all the Warrants we have in Scripture for that Ordinance with the Practice of our Church and theirs they will soon see who agree most to them Christ took Bread which he blessed and gave saying This is my Body which is given for you He also took the Chalice and said Drink ye all of it c. All this we doe and no more so that it is indeed a Communion among us and those who have read the account that Iustin Martyr gives us of the Rites in the Communion in his days would think he were reading the very Abstract of our Office But in the Church of Rome besides the less material things of the Form of the Bread the Consecration of Altars and Vessels with the numberless little devices in the Canon of the Mass that they seem not of such importance let these considerable changes they have made be looked into 1. They have brought in the Doctrine of Transubstantiation against the clearest Evidence both of sense and reason against the nature of a Sacrament and its being a Memorial of Christs Death and that by the very words of Consecration the Bread and Wine are Christs Body and Blood as the one was given for us and the other shed for us on the Cross and not as he is now at the Right hand of God The belief of this crept in by degrees from the eighth Century in which it was first set on foot but much contradicted both in the Eastern and Western Church and was not fully setled till the 13th Century We are sure it was not the Doctrine of the Churches of Rome Constantinople Asia Antioch nor Africk in the 5th and 6th Centuries by express Testimonies from the most esteemed Authors of that time Gelasius Chrysostom Ephrem Theodoret and St. Austin 2. They deny the Chalice to the Laity against the express words of the Institution and contrary both to the Doctrine and Tradition of the Church for 1300 years 3. They have declared the Priests saying Mass to be an Expiatory Sacrifice for the Dead and the Living though the Scripture plainly says That Christ was once offered for us It is true the Primitive Church used the words Sacrifice and Oblation as our Church yet does but their meaning by that was only in the general sense of these terms as Prayers Praises and Alms are called Sacrifices 4. They have brought in a new piece of Worship which is the hearing of Mass without receiving the Sacrament and it is now the great Devotion of their Church Though by the Institution it is as express as can be that the Consecration is only in order to its being a Communion And by the Apostolical Canons which some in their Church believe to be the work of the Apostles and are by them all acknowledged to be a Collection of the Rites of the first Ages all persons that were present at the Worship and did not communicate were to be severely censured 5. The adoring the Sacrament the exposing it on the Altar and carrying it about in solemn Processions to be worshipped as they are late Inventions so if Transubstantiation be not true they are by their own confession the grossest Idolatries that ever were And are not these considerable variations from the first Institution of this Sacrament As for their own Sacraments though there is no reason to equal them to either of these that were instituted by Christ yet some of them we use as they were at first appointed Persons Baptized are Confirmed with Imposition of hands the only Ceremony used by the Apostles We allow the use of Confession and do press it in many cases and give the benefit of

signified the joy in Heaven at that days work and that the Church was to flourish again by the death of the Hereticks But leaving these discantings on this seeming Miracle Morvillier that was Lord-Keeper advised That for justifying or at least mitigating the Censures that might be made on these proceedings there should be a Process carried on against the dead Admiral to prove him guilty of a Conspiracy against the King and the Royal Blood and there were some few Protestants kept Prisoners who had been taken out of the English Ambassadors Lodgings who to save themselves they hop'd might be brought to accuse the Admiral But while this Mock-Process was making there was a real prosecution of the like Cruelties in many other parts of France At Meaux a little Town not far from Paris they began on the 25th of August being Monday and spent the whole Week in shedding more Blood They killed two hundred many of those were Women whom they Forced before they Murdered them At Troye in Champaigne about the same number was killed At Orleans a thousand were also killed Six or seven hundred at Roan tho the Governour did what he could to hinder it At Bourges Nevers and Charite all they found were killed At Tholouse two hundred were killed At Burdeaux they were for some time in suspence being afraid of the Rochellers but the Priests did so inflame the Multitude that the Governour could not restrain their rage longer than the beginning of October so then they Massacred all that they could find This beginning was followed by all the Towns on the Garvinne But next to Paris Lions was the place where the most barbarous Cruelties were acted The Governour had a mind to save the Protestants and gathered together about six or seven hundred of them whom he lodged in several Prisons that so he might preserve them And to give the People some content he granted them the pillage of their Houses But they were so heated by the Clergie and by some that were sent from the Court to promote the Massacre every where that they broke open the Prisons and murdered them all dragged their Bodies through the Streets and opened the Bellies of the fattest of them to sell their Greese to Apothecaries And when they could do no more they threw ●…em into the River of Rhosne which was coloured with the Blood and filled with the Carcases of the slain These Examples were followed in many more places but detested by others who were not Papists enough to overcome Nature and all Morality The Governours in some places restrained the People and in many places the Souldiers tho more inured to Blood defended the Protestants from the Rable that were set on by the Priests The Answer the Governour of Bayonne made deserves to be remembred who wrote to the King in these Words SIR I Have communicated your Majesty's Command to the Inhabitants of the Town and the Souldiers of the Garrison I find many good Citizens and brave Souldiers but never a Hangman here And therefore in their Name and my own I humbly beg your Majesty would employ our Arms and Lives in things which are possible for us to do how dangerous soever they may be and we will spend the last drop of our Blood in your Service This gave great Offence at Court and soon after both he and the Count of Tendes Governour of Provence who had also given Orders that there should be no Massacre made within his Jurisdiction died very suddenly And it was believed they were both poisoned In all there were as Thuanas says Thirty thousand massacred over France tho he believes they were not quite so many Mezeray estimates them at five and twenty Thousand But Perefixè says that over all France near an hundred thousand were butchered And Veremundus says that besides those who were killed an hundred Thousand Persons were set a begging most of those being Widows and Orphans Many of t●●m fled to the places of strength in France and great numbers went out of the Kingdom For when they had escaped the first rage of the Massacre they clearly perceived the design of their Enemies was to extirpate them Root and Branch And tho the King at first declared he would observe the Edict inviolably they had learned from sad experience how little his Faith was to be depended on and they were further convinced of it by fresh Proofs For the King pressed the King of Navarre and the Prince of Conde very hard to change their Religion the former was tractable and hearkned to instruction but the latter continued resolute and would hear nothing This put the King once into such a Rage that he called for his Arms and was going in Person either to kill him or see him killed had not his vertuous Queen who had been instructed by her Father to abhor all cruel Proceedings about Religion cast her self at his Feet and with many Tears diverted him from so ignominious an Action But he sent for him and said only these three words to him Mass Death or the Bastil Yet he generously resolved to suffer Death or perpetual Imprisonment rather than go to Mass had they not found out a Tool fit to work on him One Sureau-des Rosiers that had been Minister of the Protestants at Orleans had now to save his Life changed his Religion But to have some reputation in it pretended that he had resolved to have done it sooner tho when that fear was over he returned to them again but was never much considered after that He was therefore employed to perswade the Prince of Conde and what by his endeavours and what by fear of Death both the King of Navarre and he went to Mass and wrote Letters full of Submission and Obedience to the Pope tho they were no sooner out of that Snare than they declared that what had been obtained of them was extorted by force This being done the King sent his Orders over all France bearing date the 22d of September to turn all Persons out of any considerable Imployments that would not renounce their Religion and a long form of Abjuration was sent with it which was to be the Test both which are printed by Veremundus The Process against the Admiral was carried on before the Parliament of Paris and without any proofs that ever were published they on the 27th of October judged him guilty of a Conspiracy against the King and his Crown And therefore ordained his Body to be hanged if it could be found or if not that he should be hanged in Effigie his House of Chastilion to be razed and a Pillar set up with an Inscription to defame his Memory his Blood was also attainted and his Children declared ignoble and incapable of any Priviledges in France And the Sentence concluded with an Order for celebrating St. Bartholomews day in all time coming with Processions and publick Thanksgivings for the Discovery and Punishment of that Conspiracy There were also two other Persons