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A89681	An apology for the discipline of the ancient Church: intended especially for that of our mother the Church of England: in answer to the Admonitory letter lately published. By William Nicolson, archdeacon of Brecon.	Nicholson, William, 1591-1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing N1110; Thomason E959_1; ESTC R203021	282,928	259

every one that is admitted a Member of the Church visible hath a right to this and all other Ordinances For it is Membership alone that gives right so that though a person be unregenerate an infant distracted ignorant or scandalous if he be a Member of the visible Church he hath a right to the Ordinance the external right being the same in one as in the other 2. Now in the use of this right the difference especially lies betwixt us We acknowledge that infants and distracted persons may not be admitted to this use of the seal the Lords Supper not for any want of right as appears invincibly by the other Sacrament to the use of which they are admitted because capable But not to this because of their incapacity natural as in children accidental as in mad men For it is required of every one that comes to the Lords Table that he examine his knowledge repentance faith charity and be able to discern the Lords Body which because neither infants nor distracted persons can do therefore we debar them justly from the use of their right No otherwise then a child though he be heir of all yet is not to be admitted to the use of his inheritance while he is thought fit to be under a Tutour or Governour Gal. 4.1 2. That which we say of infants and ignorants the self-same you would have applyed to the unregenerate ignorant and scandalous so that none of these should be admitted to the Sacrament First for the unregenerate you have set your selves a very hard task for how is it possible for you or any man else with the judgment of faith to be assured that any man is so regeneration lies deeper than the eye of man can discern If it be but upon the judgment of charity then it is but hope and suspition and upon that accompt you may admit the ignorant and profane also hoping and charitably presuming that they have knowledge and repentance enough for otherwise they would not presume to present themselves at this Feast want of regeneration is then no sufficient Barre to exclude a man from the Sacrament 2. But if irregeneration will not do it yet ignorance may But here again you have undertaken another hard task for I shall here ask you how much knowledge is precisely requisite in a Communicant before he be admitted Saint Paul requires no more but that he discern the Lords body know that it is no common bread and common wine but one represents Christs Body broken the other his blood shed for the redemption of the world and that he examine himself about which the Church hath set him a plain way in the last answer of the Chatechismes And so saith the Apostle let him eat So much knowledge as this I see not but easily may be and I verily believe is in most Communicants And if it were but confused before he came yet it might be there more distinctly taught him by what he there hears and sees done The Sacrament through the Word is a teaching Ordinance Godw. Ant. lib. 3 cap. 4. Exod. 12.26 27. the Novices of the Jews were instructed in the meaning of the Passeover and some mysteries of their Religion at that very time they came to eat the Pashcal Lamb being fore-appointed for a teaching signe as well as a memorial If any man be found among Christians that are so grossely ignorant that they know not so much as I mentioned or so dull that they cannot by what is there done be instructed let them for me be reckoned among Idiots and be excluded with them but in the mean time I fear me you will cast aside under the title of ignorant many knowing Christians because they are not come up to the heighth of your mysteries which is both rash and injurious rash to prejudge another mans knowledge and injurious for that to debarre him the use of that seal which God hath commanded every one of the visible Church to take in these words Do this drink ye all of this 3. As touching the profane and scandalous in the next place no man can be more unwilling that they should be admitted then my self But I shall not allow every man to be a judge of profanesse and scandal True it is that every sinner approaching this holy Table in his sinne and profaness eats unworthily and ruines himself Again it is true that the Governours of the Church when they know any man goes on scandalously and impenitently in any sinne ought to inflict the Church censures upon him and withdraw the Sacrament even in charity to his soul In respect of the first the Minister is to do what lies in him to disswade the prophane man to abstain lest that by coming and eating unworthily he do himself a mischief and if in prudence he refuse him I am not against it In respect of the second the Governours are to do their duty who alone because the Keyes are in their hands have power to debarre men from the use of their right If you shall now ask me who are to be admitted to the participation of Christs body and who are to be debarred I answer Ad hoc Altare quod nunc in Ecclesia est in terra positum terrenis oculis expositum ad mysteriorum signacula celebranda multi etiam scelerati possunt accedere August tom 10. homil 50. Vide Pelarg. de fruct panis Eucharist pag. 66.69 1. All that have right by the Covenant and are visible Members of Christs Body yea though they be unregenerate ignorant and profane till such time as they be convicted and not only de jure but de facto excommunicated My reasons are 1. Because the Apostle commands the Corinths 1 Cor. 5. Not to keep company with those Brethren that were Fornicatours Drunkards c. Laying down expressely this reason of his proceeding do not we judge those who are within so that this not keeping company is intended no otherwise then upon a sentence or judgment foregoing passed upon the scandalous person Afore they might keep company with him but not after 2. It seems unreasonable that a punishment should be inflicted on a Person before a judgment be passed Qui omnium pessimi usque dum Ecclesia suâ sententiâ pro canibus porcis habendos declarav●rit nolim cum illis ut canibus porcis agendum Let●onem qu● mortem commeruerit nullus jure de vitâ tollat usque dum judex reum de●●● verit sententiam tulerit 3. Because there are like to follow many slippery and dangerous inconveniences upon it Much heart-burning betwixt the Minister and his people many a private grudge thus revenged self-love and spiritual pride in him that is thus received a wilfull animosity and peevishnesse in him who is so rejected Which Beza wisely fore-saw and thus delivers his judgment Beza contra Erastum Etiamsi suis oculis Minister quempiam viderit aliquid agentem quod coenae exclusionem mereatur

tollitur corruptione nisi rotati quam vocant interitum Ecclesia non tollit partialis corruptio sed infirmat Ecclesia Romana omnia habet corrupta sed non omnino haet non interitus est fed partialis corruptio ejus disendu est And therefore to your accusation it is fit for them to answer not for me who maintain none of their corruptions God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ grant by his eternal Spirit that Spirit of eternal Truth that all the deceits and fallacies of Satan being laid asidet we may daily grow up in Christ and his Church and in the truth of Christ and his Church and that we may confirme and establish one another more and more by unfeigned Charity and the bonds of peace to his glory and the common salvation of our selves and all Christians Amen A KEY to open the Debate about a Combinational Church and the power of the KEYES The Third Part. HItherto you have held forth the doctrine in your Letter now you come to the use and application and that you may be the better understood you have thought upon five heads and upon every one of these fastned either a bitter or a joculary Epithite one is vile and virulent another is violent a third is haughty and horrible the fourth is idle and addle and the last an odde head The Spaniard gives us this caution that he whose head is of glasse ought to take heed how he casts up stones into the aire left by chance they fall upon his own pate and crack his crown Before then you made your self so merry with these heads you should have considered whether some ridiculum caput could not have created to himself and others laughter at the invention of more heads in your Combinational Churches than yet you could finde in the Catholick and tell you that you are a Monster of many heads that the Presbyter is a vile and virulent head the Independent a violent the Anabaptist a haughty and horrible the Notioner an idle and addle the Quaker an odde head You perhaps will ask him how it will be proved I will answer for him on the same day when you prove your words true of these Churches you jest at 'T is but the imagination of your own head it is so and I know not anybody that is bound presently to fall down and worship it But I come to your Letter The words of the Letter MAy not any one to whose inwards the knowledge of these particulars is come ingenuously confesse that his very soul is clearly convinced of the mighty and wonderful corruptions which have crept into are cherisht within and contested about by many yea by too too many Christians of too too many Churches The Reply Those indeed who are convinced that they are mighty and wonderful corruptions in ingenuity can do no lesse but confesse it But it is not a bure relation or recital without any proof as you for the most part have done that will convince any ingenuous man You must set to work again and fortifie your words with plain Scripture or sound domonstration yea and remove those blocks I have cast in your way before you shall convince any one who is not of a weak and servile judgment If they crept in you must shew when and by whom which you have not done your bare affirmation being of no validity That they were cherished was well because no corruptions as I have shewed That too too many Christians and too too many Churches contest about them I am sorry for it Better it were we were at peace with our selves and imploy'd our forces against the common enemy to whose entrance by our dissensions we have opened too wide a gap I fear me we shall contest so long that his words will be verified who said at his death Venient Romani The words of the Letter ANd may not I though a stranger to my nearest friends because an Exile newly arrived in the Land of my Nativity safely appeal to any person either of conscience or common sense whither Christ Jesus our supreme Lord Protectour upon whose shoulder the government of the Churches is laid hath not of late years bo n a loud witnesse against every one of those five aforementioned kinds of deformed Churches and that in these very Countries which are counted and commonly call'd Christendome If so God forbid that there should be any Christian man and more especially any Clergy man so carnal or so carelesse in all those coasts as not to be both able and willing to conceive and to conclude himself to be called upon for to consider and lay to heart the great and grievous desolations which his hand hath made amongst the most and mightiest of the sonnes of men The Reply And here I shall with teares in my eyes Eccho back unto you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God forbid it should be otherwise Oh never let any Christian of what rank soever add that talent of lead to that sinne which hath so highly provoked our good God to pour out the vials of his wrath against this our Church and these three Nations that I mention not the other of Christendome as not to lay it to heart Conceive not there can be so much carnality or carelessenesse yet left in any person imbued with conscience and common sense who hath not considered what God hath done unto us in the fiercnesse of his wrath Mic. 2.3 Lam. 2.17 Dan. 19.14.12 Psal 79.1.2 3 4. We do acknowledge that Gods Word hath taken hold of us that the Lord hath devised a device against us and hath done that which he devised that he hath watched upon the evil and brought it upon us for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem O God the people are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple have they defiled and made Jerusalem an heap of stones the dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat to the foules of the aire and the flesh of thy Saints unto the beasts of the earth their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem and there was no man to bury them we are become a reproach to our neighbours a scorne and derision to them that are round about us Gods sinking the gates his destroying the walls his slighting the strong holds of Zion his polluting the Kingdome his swallowing the Palaces his cutting off the horne of Israel Gods hating our Feasts his abominating our Sabbaths his loathing our Solemnities Isa 1. Gods forgetting his footstoole his abhorring his Sanctuary his suffering men to break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers Psal 74.6 Lam. 2.6 are all evidences to me that in the indignation of his anger he hath despised the King and the Priest Neither are we so carnal nor carelesse neither but to consider why this is done Justly justly we suffer For the Lord our God is righteous in all his works