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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58738	Several weighty considerations humbly recommended to the serious perusal of all, but more especially to the Roman Catholicks of England to which is prefix'd, An epistle from one who was lately of that communion to Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls, declaring the occasion of the following discourse.	T. S. Epistle from a late Roman Catholick to the Very Reverend Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Paul's.; Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.	1679 (1679)	Wing S183; ESTC R16533	49,205	54

Scheme of Apostolical Primitive Doctrine and Discipline You have here good works Recommended Preach'd and Practiced as the Fruits of Faith and Evidences of our Justification and though not as Expiatory for our Sins yet as in Obedience to the Divine commands and as a Sacrifice acceptable to God And even in this Degenerate Age of Christianity it might be made to appear that as many Acts and Monuments of Real Charity have been exhibited since the Reformation as were in many Ages before But for those Works of Suprerecogation as they are called whereby we are presumed to perform more than is our Duty this Church worthily disowns them as savouring of too much Pride and self Conceitedness in us who at the best are but unprofitable Servants You have here a just and Competent Authority allowed to the Church of appointing Decent Rites and Ceremonies and of determining Controversies in Religion provided she decide nothing Repugnant to the Holy Scripture And the Apostles themselves challenged no more Witness S. Paul Be ye followers of me as I am of Christ. You have here a Lawful Call to and Succession in the Ministerial Function and this Succession if need were may be shewn to be more Sincere and less Interrupted than that in the Roman Church As likewise those Three most Antient degrees of Bishops Priests and Deacons and the manner of their Ordination most conformable to God's Word and Primitive Constitutions and Practice You have here all the Divine Services and Administration of the Sacraments performed in the known Vulgar Tongue of the Country to the Edification of the People and according to Divine Precept On which Subject S. Paul hath written a whole Chapter 1 Cor. 14. no ways reconcilable to the Practice of the Roman Church which herein is confessed to disagree with Antiquity by the most Learned of our Adversaries and many of them wish that the Custome were abolished Nor doth their Common Plea avail that God understands any Language for many parts of their Service are addressed to the People and not to God as the Instructions out of the Epistles and Gospels Orate Fratres c. and many Occurrencies in the Administration of the Sacraments Here you will find the two great Sacraments of the New Law Baptism and the Sacred Eucharist The first never so much as questioned by our Adversaries as to its Validity And the other Administred in the due Matter and Form of Divine Institution and that intirely without committing that Grand Sacrilege of taking away the Cup from the Layity And if the Church of England Embrace all that is Really conveyed to us in those High Mysteries viz. The Application of those Ineffable Benefits and Advantages of the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ it is as much as every Good Christian can desire and enough if duly received to make him Happy And as for that Wonderful Doctrin of Transubstantiation we have the Romanists own Acknowledgment that it was not believed in that Church till the Councel of Lateran which likewise Decreed the Deposing of Kings and I am sure the Church of England hath Scripture Antiquity Reason and the concurring Testimony of all our Senses when she acknowledges a Real Presence to the True Believer without Annihilating the Substance of the Elements I am sure our Blessed Saviour at the Institution calls the whole Action a Commemoration and in the Consecration of the Cup he most apparently uses a double Figure both in the Cup used for what is in it and the Testament for what is conveyed by it He himself calls it the Fruit of the Vine And S. Paul 1 Cor. 11. 26. 27 28. in 3 verses together expresly calls it Bread even after the Consecration Whoever shall eat this Bread c. As often as ye eat this Bread c. Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of this Bread And whereas our Saviour saies This is my Body to omit the multitude of Authorities that might be produced let the great S. Augustin speak the sence of All Antiquity Christ did not stick to say This is my Body when he gave the Sign of his Body in Psalm 98. and de Doctrin Christian. l. 3 c. 10. he lays down this notable Rule If you find a Commandment that forbids a Crime or injoins any good Action then its sense is not Figurative but it is otherwise when it seems to command a Crime and prohibit a good Action Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you saies Christ. That word seems to command a Crime it is therefore a Figure which bids us Communicate in the passion of our Lord and call into our Memories with sweetness and benefit that his Flesh hath been wounded and nailed on the Cross for us Thus doth S. Augustin teach And indeed nothing is more frequent in Holy Writ than such manner of Speech This is the Lord 's Passover I am the true Vine c. But to examine this business fully would require a just Volume and it is already done by very able Pens The 5 other Sacraments in use in the Roman Church are solemnly used by the Church of England though not under that notion excepting the Ceremony of Anoynting which was a Miraculous guift of Healing peculiar to the Apostles In the Church of England you may injoy the true use and Advantage of Confession and Absolution in a far more serious and less suspicious manner than in the Roman Church And as for Absolution even the Form of it is as full and Compleat as theirs I will set it down here as it is found in the Service for the Visitation of the Sick Our Lord Jesus Christ who hath left power to his Church to Absolve all Sinners who truly Repent and Believe in him of his Great Mercy forgive thee thy offences And by his Authority committed to me I absolve thee from all thy Sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Her Churches are decently kept and adorned at least it is her desire they should be so though not crowded with Images the Historical use of which she rejects not but the Adoration of them she worthily esteems most Dangerous and Detestable And truly for my own part I think that Dr. Stillingfleet now the Reverend Dean of S. Pauls hath little less than Demonstrated it to be Idolatry Let any but impartially examin the general practice of the Church of Rome especially on Good-Friday in creeping to the Cross and he will find an undeniable proof of their Adoring Images The Priest by degrees uncovers the Crucifix lists it upto be Adored with these words Ecce Lignum Crucis c. Behold the Wood of the Cross come let us Adore it Then first he himself then all that are present with three Prostrations of the Body even to the Kissing of the very Earth approach to it and with all Reverence Imaginable Adore it The Worship and Invocation of