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A05534	A treatise of the ceremonies of the church vvherein the points in question concerning baptisme, kneeling, at the sacrament, confirmation, festiuities, &c. are plainly handled and manifested to be lawfull, as they are now vsed in the Church of England : whereunto is added a sermon preached by a reuerend bishop.	Lindsay, David, d. 1641?	1625 (1625)	STC 15657.5; ESTC S2190	273,006	442

with imposition of hands as Caluine affirmes Instit lib. 4. sect 4. wishing that it were restored to the first integritie in the reformed Churches Yet the Pamphleter to make simple ones beleeue that euery thing concluded in that Assembly was erroneous hee giues out that the Sacrament at least the ceremonie of Confirmation was there allowed and appropriated to Bishops PP We haue abjured Episcopall gouernment and therefore we cannot lawfully admit Episcopall Confirmation giuing and not granting their office were lawfull and that they haue gotten a lawfull calling by the Church to the said office Thirdly that we were free of our oath and fourthly That Confirmation were to be allowed whether as a Ceremonie or as a Sacrament yet it is damnable presumption to appropriate vnto themselues the dutie that belongs to all Paftors ANS If by the Ceremonie or Sacrament of Confirmation yee vnderstand the miraculous imposition of hands vsed by the Apostles or yet the bastard Sacrament of Confirmation vsed in Poperie whereby Bellarmine whom yee afterwards cire sayes That the Lord would honour Episcopalem dignitatem neither of these are allowed by the Act nor appropriated to Bishops Therefore your whole dispute following being directed onely against these two points is idle superfluous But if by Confirmation ye did vnderstand according to the meaning of the Act the dutie which Bishops should performe in trying at their Visitation the diligence of Pastors in catechizing young children and in causing them bee brought before them to bee examined and blessed this part of Episcopall gouernment yee haue not abjured but haue approued by your assertorie oath and obliged your selfe to maintayne and obey by your promissorie oath if so bee yee did sweare to the Policie set downe in the first booke of Discipline Anno 1560. as yee haue often professed For the wordes in that booke touching this point of Bishops dutie are these After the Superintendents haue remayned in their chiefe Townes three or foure moneths at the most they shall be compelled vnlesse by sicknesse onely they be retayned to re-enter in their Visitation In which they shall not onely preach but also examine the life diligence and behauiour of the Ministers as also the order of their Churches and manners of their people They must further consider how the poore are prouided for and the youth instructed By these wordes it is manifest that it was not a thing common to euery Pastor to visite Churches and trie the diligence of Ministers specially concerning their instruction of the youth but that it was proper to the Superintendent Now if yee haue sworne that this is lawfull in the person of the Superintendent how can yee call it a damnable presumption in the person of a Bishop whose function and name is the same differing onely in the origination of the word the one being drawne from the Latine the other from the Greeke for a Bishop in the Greeke tongue is the same that a Superintendent is in the Latine And in visiting of Churches the triall of the education of children which now is a dutie belonging to the Bishops function is here set downe as a speciall point of the Superintendents office As to the blessing which the Bishop is appointed to giue vnto them Caluine in the place aboue cited sayes That it should bee vsed to the end that graue and sacred action may haue the greater reuerence and dignitie This examination of children in the ancient Church had ioyned with it not the blessing onely but the ceremonie also of imposition of hands and thereupon in the fourth Councell of Carthage Can. 85. It is called Examinatio impositionis manus and is appointed to be often vsed towards the Catechumenists before they were baptised But this blessing and imposition of hands vpon the Catechumenists and vpon the young children of Christians was not the principall action nor a Sacramentall rite as it was after esteemed nor giuen to Bishops for honour of their Episcopall dignitie but accessorie onely as Caluine rightly thinks vnto the examination which was the Bishops speciall dutie in his Visitation It is true the omission of the principall dutie and the vsing onely of the accessorie to wit the imposition of hands was the first corruption that crept in after that came in the crossing the annointing of the forehead and the buffet giuen to the child in stead of the blessing and so a Bastard Sacrament was instituted in the place of a most profitable point of the Episcopall function Further as it is the dutie of euery Pastor to catechize the young children in his Parish and try whether the Parents haue kept their promise made at the Baptisme of their Children in which tryall if hee shall finde the childe to haue profited well hee ought to blesse and pray for them So is it the Bishops dutie in his Visitation to try if the Pastors haue performed their parts and after examination to blesse these same children And as the examination and blessing vsed by the Pastor takes not away the power that parents haue to examine and blesse their owne children so the examination and blessing of Bishops takes not away the power that Pastors haue of triall and blessing within their owne Parish Therefore to conclude the Ordinance set downe in the Act of Perth appropriates nothing to Bishops that is common to Pastors and Parents but preserues vnto euery one the prerogatiue of his owne calling Neither is there any thing ordayned in the Act but that which Caluine wished earnestly to be restored againe in the Church In the fourth booke of his Institutions cap. 29. sect 4. 13. De Confirmatione hee writes as followes Hic mos olim fuit vt Christianorum liberi postquam adoleuerant coram Episcopo sisterentur vt officium illud implerent quod ab ijs exigebatur qui se ad Baptismum adulti offerebant hi enim inter Catechumenos sedebant donec ritè fidei mysterijs instituti poterant fidei confessionem coram Episcopo ac populo edere Qui ergo Baptismo initiati erant infantes quia fidei confessione apud Ecclesiam tunc defuncti non erant sub sinem pueritiae aut ineunte adolescentia repraesentabantur iterum à parentibus ab Episcopo examinabantur secundùm formulam Catechismi quam tunc habebant certam communem Quò autem hac actio quae alioqui grauis sanctaque meritò esse debebat plus reuerentiae haberet ac dignitatis ceremonia quoque adhibebatur manuum impositionis It a puer ille fide sua approbata cum solenni benedictione dimittebatur c. Talem ergo manuum impositionem qua simpliciter loco benedictionis fiat laudo restitutam hodie in purum vsum velim that is to say It was the custome of old that the children of Christians after they were growne vp to some perfection were brought vnto the Bishop to performe that dutie which was done by these that were of perfit yeares before they came to

dayes prescribed in Gods Word Hookers is more large and may bee applyed to the Ecclesiasticall Festiuities The Iewish Sabbath according to these descriptions is not properly festiuall yet the Lords day was esteemed such by the primitiue Church and ancient Diuines who held it not lawfull for Christians to fast thereon Proper Texts Epistles Gospels c. are not to bee framed for the mysterie of the festiuall day as yee say but for the benefit and diuine action appointed to be remembred thereon If by the ordinary Sabbath yee vnderstand the Iewish Sabbath it was not onely morall but mysticall as their festiuall dayes were and if by festiuall dayes yee vnderstand the dayes obserued in the Christian Orthodoxe Church we deny them to be mystically If by essentialia festi yee vnderstand the essentiall parts of the worship performed on the festiuall day wee deny cessation from worke to be an essentiall part of the worship but only concomitant and consequent thereto because it cannot be commodiously performed without cessation from other businesse As to Bellarmines opinion himselfe professes that it is contrarie to the iudgement of our Diuines For they hold as wee doe that our Festiuall dayes are not obserued for signification and representation of our mysteries or memorable workes wrought on these dayes or as a part of diuine worship but for order and policie as meete and commodious circumstances for commemoration of the workes and benefits of God thereon Bellar. de cultu Sanctor l. 3. c. 10. PP Six dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe These words are either a command to doe the workes of our calling as many both Iewish and Christian Diuines doe interpret or else a permission as others doe interpret If they contayne a command no countermand may take it away If a permission no humane authority may spoyle men of the libertie that God hath granted vnto them as long as they haue any manner of worke to doe for the sustentation of this life The Muscouites therefore say very well that it is for Lords to keepe Feasts and abstaine from labour The Citizens and Artificers amongst them vpon the Festiuall dayes after diuine Seruice to betake themselues to their labor and domestick affaires as Gaguinus reports ANS Whether the words of the command bee preceptine or permissiue I will neither curiously nor contentiously dispute but it seemes they are not preceptiue for if wee were commanded to spend the whole sixe dayes in seruile labour then times could not bee lawfully appointed for publike Prayers in Cities at morne at euening nor ordinary times for preaching on the weeke dayes or for exercise or for catechizing nor times for fasting vpon vrgent occasions without sinne and breach of the Precept Next the precept touching labour belongs not to the first Table but is comprized in the Command of the second Table as Saint Paul giues vs to vndestand in these words Let him that stole sleale no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that hee may haue to giue to him that needes Ephes 4.28 If therefore here any precept be contayned it is per accidens by occasion onely of the principall command touching the sanctification of the Sabbath Thirdly if the words were preceptiue and had relation to the time that is if a certaine time were prescribed during the which men should labour it would bee told quam diu how long or for what space we should labour as the Precept of the Sabbath contaynes the space during the which we should rest from our labours and not quando only when wee may labour It is more probable therefore that the words are permissiue like these in Genesis Of all the Trees in the Garden thou shalt eate which words did not aslrict Adam to eate of all the Trees onely they gaue him libertie to eat of such as he should choose so the words of this command astricts not the people of God as slaues to labour still without intermission during the whole space of sixe dayes whether they bee taken for a precept or a permission but they leaue to their arbitrement that haue the dispensation of workes and businesses priuate Oeconomicall Ciuill Ecclesiastick the choice of houres dayes and times which they shall thinke most conuenient and thus the priuate man may make choice of times to his labour and to his refreshment The Master of the Family may appoint times to his Seruants and Children for their labour and times for their relaxation the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticke Gouernours haue power to ordayne for Ciuill and Ecclesiasticke actions meet and conuenient times which power is rightly vsed when as Superiours make choice of such times as neither hurt nor hinder the necessary labours of their Inferiours Like as priuate persons and Inferiours must in the dispensation of the times whereof they haue power accommodate themselues to the order taken by Superiours for publike actions that by a mutuall harmonie the weale of the whole bodie both temporall and spirituall may be procured Otherwise if by this permission the libertie were granted to euery person which you imagine to attend his own businesse without respect of order or subiection to policie there could be nothing but confusion amongst men The generall libertie granted to men touching the vse of times meats clothing talking sleeping watching c. takes not away the power of Ciuil Ecclesiastick Gouernors to set down Constitutions Canons touching the Dispensation of these things for the weale of the Countrey Neither doe the Lawes and Ordinances touching this Dispensation spoyle men of their libertie but directs them how to vse it profitably and well The Act therefore of Councell and Proclamation made thereupon commanding cessation and abstinence from all handie-worke vpon the fiue dayes that euery one may the better attend the holy exercises appointed for these times cannot bee called a spoliation of the libertie which God hath giuen to men for labour seeing as hath beene said that libertie is not absolute but subiect vnto order Moreouer if we consider the matter it selfe this which yee say will appeare to be a manifest calumnie For if vnder the Law God did not spoyle his people of libertie when hee appointed them to rest two dayes at Pasche one at Whitsonday one at the Feast of Trumpets one at the Feast of Expiation and two at the Feast of Tabernacles how can the Kings Maiestie and the Church be esteemed to spoyle vs of our libertie that command a cessation from labour vpon three dayes only throughout the whole yeere for two of the dayes commanded to wit Easter and Whitsonday are Sondayes Last of all he cannot be said to bee spoyled properly that makes a profitable interchange without any losse but he that changes the exercises of the body which are little worth with the exercises of Pietie which is profitable to all things makes a profitable change without losse therefore hee who makes this