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A91228	A new discovery of some Romish emissaries, Quakers; as likewise of some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced, pursued by our anticommunion ministers. Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper; the popish errors whereon it is bottomed; perswading the frequent celebration of it, to all visible church-members, with their free-admission thereunto; and prescribing some legal regal remedies to redress the new sacrilegious detaining of it from the people, where their ministers are obstinate. / By William Prynne of Swainswicke Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4017; Thomason E495_2; ESTC R203274	40,067	59

Passeports and Protections so much t condemned in the late King have beene surreptitiously procured by such disguised Irish Footmen and Souldiers for other Friers Priests Jesuits And so much the rather because when I was a Prisoner at the Kings head in January 1648. under the Army-Officers who forcibly seized me and above 40 other Members of the Commons house as we went to discharge our duties in it to God our Soveraign Country and those for whom we served some ●riends of mine in London being then Convented be●ore the General Council of Officers of the Army at White-hall as they then stiled themselves for saying there were divers Priests and Jesuites in the Army the chief contrivers of the designs and change● the● acted and there justifying the same thereupon procured a Warna●t from Sir Thomas Fairfax then General to seise such Jesuites and Priests as they found in the Armies Quarters as well Souldiers as others whereby they presently apprehend two Jesuites and put them in ward that night who as they then and since informed me upon their credits being honest godly conscientious persons produced two Protections under the self-same hand that granted this Passe which they then saw and complained of And were thereupon answered that they were granted by misinformation and surprise however those Jesuits got themselves released the next day whereupon they thought it bootlesse and dangerous for them to seise any more of them having discovered many they knew to be such and so their good intentions were frustr●ted and the others sad designes carryed on under which we yet shake and languish in a most unsetled and divided condition Upon which considerations and presidents I can give no better advice to all our swaying Grandees of all sorts now than I did then in print in my Memento upon that occasion to tender the Oath of Abjuration to all Officers Commanders Souldiers Mariners and persons desiring Passeports or Protections that are not of known Integrity in our Religion and frequent not the publike Ordinances of God in our Parochial Congregations which will detect for the present and prevent for the future the creeping in the wandring abroad of such dangerous Romish vermin and Spanish Factors as this Conry and his Confederates in whose Detection I have been more large because of the Novelty of some of his Dispensations and Faculties which I never met with before in any printed Books or Popish Instruments I have perused and because it may give light to others to make the like or greater discoveries of their persons practices in this and future ages It is very strange and grievous to all true Zealous Protestants that this extraordinary disguised Missionary of the Pope should procure such Letters of recommendation Passe-ports Protections under hand and seal and that the Anti-christian Infidel Jews themselves should a be specially invited to come in and reside amongst us and finde many Grand Court-Patrons publikely to plead for their free re-admission b against former Parliamentary and Regal Edicts for their perpetual Exile in these times of Reformation and yet that all Protestant Ministers of our own Nation adhering to the late King though never so orthodox learned pious painfull peaceable should at c the self-same time by a publike printed Declaration Nov. 24. 1655. and special Instructions in writing to our New Bashaes without any hearing impeachment conviction of any new Crimes after sundry years Liberty to preach and that some call an Act of Oblivion onely for this their old pardoned Delinquency be all at one instant specially pr●hibited from and after the 1. day of December last TO PREACH in any publike place or private Meeting of any other persons than those of their own Family or to ADMINISTER BAPTISM or THE LORDS SUPPER or TO MARY or KEEP ANY SCHOOL publike or private or so much as to be kept as CHAPLAINS or SCHOOLMASTERS in any formerly sequestred persons Houses when utterly ejected out of their own Houses Benefices Schools Colleges by this New Edict and to be punished as Rogues or Vagrants if they wander abroad when thus enforced to begg their bread And that every such person offending in any of the premises their very preaching teaching administring Baptism the Lords Supper or marying being now become capital unpardonable Offences shall be proceeded against and imprisoned 3. moneths for his first 6. moneths for his 2d and banished his Native Country for his 3d. Offence VVhich uncharitable unchristian unevangelical restraints are still continued upon many of them and more particularly on Dr. Reeves our eminent learned Lecturer of Lincolns Inne notwithstanding the earnest frequent sollicitations of devout and learned Archbishop Vsher to the shortning of his dayes through grief as some conceive the frequent joynt and several Petitions Addresses of these Ministers themselves and their Friends the timely Petition of the whole Society of Lincolns Inne and Mediations of all the Grand Officers of Justice State of the Society for their Lecturers liberty to preach to the great rejoycing of our Popish Adversaries to the great grief prejudice discontentment of their Auditors the undermining of our Protestant Religion dishonor of our Church Nation the ruine of some hundreds of those Protestant Ministers and their Families formerly breaking unto us the bread of life who now want daily bread to ●eed them when as disguised Popish Emissaries Jesuites Preists Friers Quakers Dippers Hereticks and Blasphemers of all sorts have Free liberty and Protection to preach teach dip re-baptize administer the Sacrament meet together and do what they list in publike and private Conventicles without the least restraint And is this to defend propagate or not rather avowedly to supplant tread down the Protestant Religion d we covenanted and took up armes formerly to maintain thus to e smite silence starve ruine so many orthodox Protestant Shepherds Pastors at one blow and to threaten inexorable Imprisonments yea banishments to them if they but once presume to teach preach or administer Sacraments according to their f obliged duty and Christs own Injunction in publike or private for the peoples edification or their own or families supportation VVhen thousands of Romish VVolves Hereticks Sectaries of all sorts are so busie in all parts to seduce devour their flocks now left g like Sheep without a Shepherd in many places The Lord give those whom it most concerns and the whole Nation eyes timely to discern and hearts to bewail reform this Soul-devouring barbarous cruelty And let those who have been instrumental Contrivers of or Actors in it consider and remember Mat. 7. 2. With what judgement ye judge ye shall be judged and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again and James 2. 13. For he shall have judgement without Mercy that hath shewed no mercy but this extremity of cruelty even to the Minsters of Christ himself and all those they deem their Enemies is contrary to the express precepts of Christ himself Mat. 5. 44

of desolation in which they run on headlong without deliberation discretion fear or wit 1. It is worth our special observation that in m Lancashire and those other Northern parts where Popish Priests Friers Recusants formerly most abounded there our last newest up-start Sect of Quakers first sprung up and now most of all abound sending out their Popish Romish Emissaries thence into all other parts of the Realm to seduce the people and openly to revile traduce affront disturb our Ministers in their Churches Pulpits Houses in going to returning from their Churches and in the open streets in a more insolent manner and with greater impunity than ever the Popish Priests Friers or Papists in those parts affronted reviled disturbed them heretofore when they were most countenanced or connived at by our late Kings or their Officers being encouraged thereunto by many in greatest Authority in those parts of which I have seen lat● sad complaints in Letters of Ministers thus insufferably abused disturbed daily by them to their great vexation not only against n the late Statute of 1 Mariae c. 3. but the antient Fundamental Laws of England before the Conquest o presented to William the Conqueror himself upon Oath by the famous Grand E●quest of 12 of the principal men chosen out of every County and ratified by him i● Parliament in the 4th year of his reign providing for the peace and quiet of the Ministers and people too against all affronts and disturbances both in their going to continuance in and returning from their Churches or Synods as well as to our Parliaments and other Courts of Justice still in full Legal vigour by which all such disturbers may and ought to be fined imprisoned upon conviction according to the quality of their offences as well as p other disturbers infringers of the publike Peace and bound both to the Peace and good behaviour for the future ere released with sufficient sureties 2ly It is remarkable that these New Quakers were sent from those Northern Counties into other quarters of the Kingdom two by two at first no doubt by the direction of their Popish Provincial just as the Franciscan Friers are sent out by their Provincial In the q years 1638 1639 and 1640. there were sundry Franciscans with whole swarms of Jesuits Benedicti●s and other Friers sent from forein parts into England Scotland Ireland Virginia St. Christophers and other English Plantations to reduce the people back to Rome towards which we were then running post The Original Instruments of some of their Missions with sundry of their Letters Papers under their own hands and s●a●s relating their intentions proceedings seised in the Capucins Cell ad●oyning to the late Queens Chappel at Somerset-house and in Mary-land by a Sea-Captain my Client where the Jesuites erected a New Colledge and Society the whole History whereof and of their proceedings in those parts was comprised in their Letters Gods providence brought into my hands when they and their seduced instruments were most busie in reforming new-modelling our Church Religion Parliaments Realms Government after the prescribed patterns of Robert Parsons the Jesuit Thomas Campanella the Frier and Richelieu the French Cardinal as I have r elsewhere demonstrated beyond contradiction The chiefest of these Instruments Letters Papers of great concernment to our Church State Religion I intended long since to have published But s Jo. Bradshaw and his Whitehall Associats out of their transcendent zeal to our Religion and Republike in the end of June 1650 by special warrants directed to Soldiers plundred me of those all my other Papers Letters Writings Records in my Study at Lincolns I●ne and at Swainswicke which they could seise on and then shut me up close Prisoner under strictest armed Guards in 3. remote Castles near 3. whole years without any particular cause then or since expressed or the least hearing or examination of me only to hinder my Discoveries and publications of this Nature whiles these Romish Emissaries in the mean time wandred freely up and down throughout our Dominions without restraint t published many thousands of Popish heretical blasphemous New Books and some of them were Souldiers in pay in their very Guards no doubt to help extirpate Popery Superstition Heresie Schism and for the Preservation Defence and Reformation of the Protestant Religion the preservation of the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament the Liberties of the Kingdom t●e Honour Happinesse Defence and Preservation of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity according to the u Tenor of the Solemn League and Covenant the quite contrary way and promoting their New Engagement diametrically repugnant thereunto Yet notwithstanding all their diligent Searches by Gods providence they left one of those Original Popish Missions in Parchment under Seal undiscovered which I lately found in my Study at L●●colns Inne whereby two Franciscans were sent by their Provincial of Bri●ain in the year 1639. to St. Christophers and other Western Ilands where we had plantations who ended their progresse at Somerset-house where this Instrument was seised which beca●se it may give some light towards the Discovery of our Quakers Missions in like manner two by two I shall here pri●4t verb●●tim out of the Original in my custody seen by many of my Friends Admodum Venerabili Patri * F Hugoni Ancenisiensi Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Sancti Francisci Capucinorum Sacerdoti * F R●phael Nannetensis ejusdem Ordinis et In Provincia Britanni● Provinc●alis licet immeritus Salutem In eo qui est vera Sa●us CUm divino incensus amore et animarum Salutis sollicitudine pulsus ex hac nostra Britanniae Provincia ad Insulas Occidentales per longa maris pericula sis vela facturus ut illius regionis populos in umbra mortis sedentes in ●ucem veritatis Christianae omni cum studio adducere valeas Nobisque ex regulae Seraphyci Patris Francisci praescripto incumbat de mittendorum idonietate judicare et à sancta Sede sit Nobis concessum quos ad tale Apostolicum munus obeundum dignos censuerimus illuc dirigere Te cujus Pietas et fervor animi animarumque Zelus Nobis innotuit ad id munus cum salutaris obedientiae merito et RR. PP. Definitorum applausu ad Insulam Sancti Christopheri Martiniam aut aliam Insulam Occidentalem Ibique commorandi si opus ●nerit Confessiones excipiendi caeteraque tui muneris Apostolici Officia exercendi donec per Nos vel Successorem nostrum tibi aliter innotuerit Vna cum V. P. F. Epiphanio Alenconiensi in nomine Domini mittimus et deputamus Ut autem dignè quantum fierr poterit in tam celebri Missione peragenda te geras omnibus facultatibus per nostra Privilegia concessi●● gaudere atque uti in quantum se extendit nostra authoritas libenter tibi concedimus Monentes ●e●ut cum omni studio vigil●●●ia zelo alacritate ac fidei

Mr. Harding against Bishop Jewel who refutes it in the Name of the Church of England Yet now professedly avowed of late in A Brotherly and Friendly Censure of my 4. Quaeres p. 8. in Dr. Drake his Anti-Quaeries and Boundary to the Holy Mount and sundry others as their chief ground of keeping suspending all those they deem unworthy from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper alone but from no other part of Gods worship This opinion first sprung from Popish Transubstantiation which as it introduced e Adoration of prostration kneeling bowing to towards before the consecrated Elements Altars and railing in Altars in the Church of Rome so it f lately brought into our Cathedrals and Parish Churches prostration kneeling bowing to and before the Sacramental Elements and rayling in of Altars Lords Tables at the East end of our Quires in imitation of the Romanists by our Popish Prelates and Priests Witnesse Archbishop Lauds own words in his Speech in Star-chamber An. 1637. p. 47. The Altar is the greatest place of Gods residence upon earth I say the greatest yea greater than the Pulpit For there t is Hoc est Corpus meum This is my Body But in the Pulpit it is at most but Hoc est Verbum meum this is my Word And a greater Reverence * no doubt is due to the Body than to the Word of the Lord And so in relation answerably to the Throne where his Body is usually present than to the Seat where his Word useth to be proclaimed Which Popish dotage of his seconded by Dr. Pocklington Dr. Heylin Dr. Laurence Edmund Reeve Shelford and other Popish Innovators I have g elsewhere at large refuted 2. That the Lords Supper is more holy dreadfull excellent venerable and more dangerous damnable to such who unworthily approach unto it than any other Sacrament or divine Ordinance whatsoever And therefore necessarily requires a greater measure degree and another manner of worthinesse fitnesse preparation qualification self-examination confession of sin faith repentance Grace Holinesse in those who are to be admitted to receive it then Baptism Prayer hearing reading of the Word thanksgiving fasting or any other part of Gods publike worship to which they and our rigidest Presbyterians freely admit all their Parishioners without any trial or transcendent wor●hinesse fitnesse or preparation Hence h Popish Councils Writers stile the Lords Supper Excellentissimum Sacramentum quia continet in se● actorem totius Gratiae et Sunctificationis Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum et verum Christi Corpus et sanguinem And thence inferre Excellentia hujus Sacramenti requirit dignum mysterium et ideo volens recipere vel conficere tantum Sacramentum debet se praeparare per Contritionem et veram Confessionem peccatorum suorum ac puram devotionem Statuimus quod nullus deinceps ad Eucharistiae Sacramentum teneatur aliquem admit●ere nisi prius illum audierit in Confessione aut prius sibi fide facta quod more fidelium poenitentiae reciperit Sacramentum Nemo sine speciali Contritione Confessione et Satisfactoriis operibus dignè praemunitus ad Eucharis●iam sumendam accedat Moneantur conjugati non nisi praeparata aliquot dierum continentia ad Eucharistae sumpsionem accedere c. Which very Popish Doctrine and Consequence of an extraordinary transcendent degree of worthiness preparation c. are professedly asser●ed by the Authors of the Antidote to and Brotherly friendly censure of my four Questions Dr. Drake in his Anti-quaeries boundary Mr. Collins in his Juridical Suspension and others 3. Upon these precedent false Principles and the extraordinary danger of unworthy receiving the Popish Priests and Prelates inferr i That they are bound to admit none to the Lords Supper but such whom they upon a precedent private examination and Confession of their sins to themselves or such as they appoint shall absolve and deem worthy and prepared to receive it And their Councils Decree Nullus Parochus ad hujus Sacramenti sumptionem quempiam admittat cujus conscientiam non noverit aut ipse aut ab eo ei negotio praefectus Nec quemquam Parochi seu Curati ad Communionem admittant nisi quem privs sciverint confessum fuisse peccata aut ipsis aut eorum Vicariis seu Sacerdotibus deputatis And upon the self-same grounds as the Church of * Saxony in the beginning of Reformation admitted none to the Communion unlesse they were first examined heard tried and absolved of the Pastor and his fellow-Ministers Complying herein over-much with the Papists So now k Mr. Rutherford l Dr. Drake m Mr. Collins and other over-rig●d Presbyterians assert They are bound in duty conscience prudence first to try examine the knowledge faith graces repentance lives and visible worthinesse of all their Parishioners before they come to the Lords Supper to admit none thereto but such whom they and their Presbyteries upon trial shal deem worthy and prepared to receive it and to seclude all others from it concurring herein with these Popish Priests and Prelates 4. That there is n a lesser Excommunication whereby the Prelates and other Officers of the Church are authorized impowred judicially by way of Church Censure to suspend and keep back scandalous ignorant unconfessed obstinate Church-members who refuse to submit to the examination and orders of the Church from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper only without any actual sequestring of them from any other publike Ordinances in which they may freely communicate with other Christians distinct form that Excommunicatio major which totally secludes Christians from entring into the Church and all Christian fellowship and Communion in any publike Ordinance and all private society with Christians Which lesser Excommunication was first introduced by Popish Councils Casonists Casuists only for lesser mortal sins and conversing with persons lying under the censure of the greater Excommunication And is now most eagerly asserted by o Mr. Rutherford p Mr. Gillespy q Dr. Drake r Mr. Collins s The Ministers of Syon College and others as committed to Church-Officers and Presbyteries by the will and testament of Jesus Christ though no ways warranted but contradicted by all the Scripture testimonies they produce to warrant it and by the practices of the Primitive Church as I have proved at large in t former publications The only memorable particular example recorded in antient Ecclesiastical Histories of a publick excommunication denounced by a Bishop for a scandalous crime especially against his Soveraign is that of St. Ambrose Bishop of Millais against the Emperour Theodosius the first thus recorded by u Theodoret and others The Inhabitants of Thessalonica a rich populous City in Macedonia in a popular tumult slew their Judges all and who took part with Theodosius in the Government Where with he being highly incensed so far exceeded the bounds of justice and reason in the punishment thereof that he caused his

Souldiers without searching out the Malefactors to slay promiscously in a rage no lesse than 7000 of the Citizens putting no difference betwixt the guilty and innocent After this bloody execution at the Emperours next coming to the Church of Millain to pray and do his devotions of as custom he used St. Ambrose stepping to the Church-door as he was about to enter into the Church with much boldnesse prohibiting him to enter used this speech unto him Thou seemest O Prince not to understand what a monstrous slaughter of people is committed by thee neither doth rage suffer thee to weigh with thy self what thou hast done yet must thou know that from dust we came and to dust we shall Let not therefore the brightnesse of thy clothes hide from thee the weaknesse of flesh that is under them Thy Subjects are of the same metal that thou art and serve the same Lord that thou dost With what Eyes therefore wilt thou behold the house of this Common Lord and with what feet wilt thou tread on his holy pavements Wilt thou reach those hands dropping yet with the blood of Innocents to receive the most sacred body of the Lord Wilt thou put that precious blood of his to thy mouth which in a rage hast spilt so much Christian blood Depart rather and heap not one sin upon another Neither refuse this Bond of Excommunication which the Lord of all doth ratifie in heaven It is not much and it will restore thee the health of thy Soul All which the Emperour hearing with great patience returned presently to his Palace without entring the Church obeying the excommunication and there continued above 8 moneths space without coming any mo●e into the Church or putting on his Emperial Robes Af●er which upon his earne●t request and publike repentance for this crime● and his enacting this Law by St. Ambrose his advise by way of penance as some write That from thenceforth no man whom he or his Succes●ors should condemn to dye should be executed within thirty dayes after the Sentence of death denounced against him he being absolved from his excommunication came again into the Church and there making his prayers and performing his devotions received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper From which History it is apparent 1. That Excommunicate persons in that age were not suspended only from the Lords Supper but secluded from entring into the Church it self and from all publike x divine Ordinances used in it as well as from the Lords Table ●nd from all Christi●● Communion Hence y sundry Councils since with z Gratian and all a Popish Canonists resolve and decree Major Excommunicatio Seperat ab ingressa Ecclesiae à Sacramentis et à Communione fidelium Excommunicatus non potest interesse Divinis Officiis aut cum alii● orare in Ecclesia Her debet extra ita prope ●●are quod audiat And if any such excommunicate person come into the Church he is presently to be thrust out of it and the Priest must give over his begun Masse Prayers Preaching and not proceed therein till ne depart the Church Neither may any Christian wittingly eat drink conferre or trade with such a one under pain of Excommunication Yea our own Statute of 5 E. 6. ch. 4. against such as fight and strike in the Church Enact That such an Offender shall be excommunicate an●be e●cluded from the fellowship and company of Christs Congregation b This Excommunication our Laws c Lawbooks take notice of which likewise disables men to sue in any Civil Court of Justice if pleaded in barr against them under Seal In brief the 33 Article of the Church of England ratified by the statute of 13 Eliz. c. 13. and Sub●criptions of all our Ministers Defines Excommunication to be a cutting off from the Unity of the Church and whole multitude of the faithfull who ought to avoid an excommunicate person as an Heathen and a Publican untill he be openly reconciled by Penance and received into the Church by a Judge that hath Authority thereunto And the Confessions of Bohemia c. 8. 14. Of Helvetia c. 16. Of the French Churches c. 32 33. Describe Excommunication to be a removal of wicked scandalous obstinate Sinners from the Holy Fellowship of Believers a throwing them out from the Church and delivering them to Satan by Ecclesiastical punishment And absolution of such upon repentance to be A taking them again into the Church to the Communion of Saints and Sacraments Therefore the New-found Suspension and Excommunication of scandalous persons only from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper without seclusion from the Church and other Ordinances now so much contested for is but a meer Popish Innovation not warranted by Scripture Antiquity our own Statutes Articles or other Protestant Churches Confessions 2. That in that age all Church-members freely admitted to the publike prayers of the Church and not thus actually excommunicated from all Ordinances and the Church it self were freely admitted to the Lords Supper and all excommunicated persons too upon their absolution 3. That the Lords Supper in that age was usually received by all Church-members when ever they publiquely assembled to pray or hear Gods word and no other no greater worthinesse holinesse qualification preparation or self-examination required for Chri●tians free admission to the Com●●nion th●n to other publike duties which it did then daily accompany This president of St. Ambrose his excommunicating this godly Emperour Theodos●us and keeping him above 8 Moneths space from the Church and all publike Ordinances only for his over-rash execution of Justice upon his rebellious mutinous subjects upon so great a provocation notwithstanding his present humiliation and sorrow for it upon the first reprehension and that without any precedent private or publique admonition as it s no ways warranted by any precept or president in Gods word nor parallel example in the Primitive Church and censured by sober c Protestants as over-harsh indiscret rash and too Pontifical yea such as might have then pro●uced d a dangerous Schism in the Church to the great pre●udice of Religion had not this godly Emperour been more humble patient prudent than St. Ambrose So it hath in later ages been e much abused and insisted on by Antichristian Trayterous Popes Popish Prelates Jesuits Priests to justify their many illegal unchristian unrighteous Excommunications of Christian-Emperors Kings Princes their deposing them from their Empires Crowns Kingdoms their absolving their subjects from their allegiance to them and taking up arms against them to the great disturbance of most Christian Empires Realms States Churches Therefore it can be no justification or proof at all for any of our Protestant Ministers wilfully to abs●ain from the celebration of the Lords Supper and seclude● excommunicate all their Parishioners from it not only 8. whole Moneths but almost so many years together upon the forementioned Popish principles or any other ground especially not being all actually excommunicated or

excite perswade compell their people to repair frequently constantly with due preparation and self-examination to this heavenly banquet yea in no wise to neglect it when administred and that in obedience to o Christs command and upon this consideration of the p Council of Burdea●x Ann. 1582. Quemadmodum corporibus Sic animis sua sunt alimenta ●ribuenda ne si neulto tempore jejun● languidique permanserint in laboriosa vitae humanae peregrinatione et via defi●i●●t ●deoque pane vitae quae de coelo descendit nimi●um s●●c●osancto Christi corporo quod in Eucharistia continetur Parochi populos sibi commissos pascere satagunt et assiduis cohortationibus ad hunc coelestem cibum invitent c. And if this will nor prevail let at least the consideration of this notable Canon of the Popish Council of Rhemes it self Anno 1583. induce them thereunto q Cum nihil habeat Christiana religio Sacramento Eucharistiae praestantius aug●●stius ●●ilque ad sanctè et inculpatè vivendum efficatius ejusdem frequentissima participatione dolemus tantam esse Christianorum hujus temporis incuriam ut semel tantum in anno sumant tam salutaris Sacramenti substdia Quare Paroeci et qui ad divini v●●bi p●aedicationem asciscuntur deinceps de ●requentis Communionis antiquo usu ejusdemque mitis frudibus et utilitate differant ●t fidelibus persuadere ritantur ●ray mark it● nullum esse modum aptiorem et compendiostorem quo sopitis et extindis Haeresibus Ecclesiae Apostolicae facies nostro seculo redeat Nos quoque fi●eles omnes hortamur et per viscera misericordiae Dei nostri obsecramus ut quam saepissime saltem vero Diebus solennibus communicent et quotiescunque postulaverit ingruens necessitas ●u●● vitam humanam ●n d●scrimen e● periculum adducat And seeing there is in * Prayer hearing and all other sacred Duties as well as this a like double danger the one in neglecting contemning them which is the * greater the other in the unworthy performing of them which is the lesser sin let our Ministers in this case presse both of them together on their people and not the lesser danger only of unworthy receiving without the greater peril of contemning or neglecting to receive the Sacrament when publikely administred according to the Decree of the r Council of Cavailon under Charles the Great An. 800. In perceptione Corporis Sanguinis Domini magna discretio ad●ibenda est Cavendum est enim ne●s● nimium in longum differatur ad perniciem Animae pertineat dicente Domino Nisi manducaveritis carnem filii hominis et biberitis ejus Sanguinem non habebitis vitam in vobis Si verò indiscretè accipiatur timendum est illud quod ait Apostolus Qui manducat et bibit indigne judicium sibi manducat et bibit Juxta ejusdem ergo Apostoli documentum probare se debet homo et sic de pane illo manducare et de calice bibere And according to that Epistle of s Theodulphus Au●●llanensis Episcopus Anno 835. ad Fatres et Compresbyteras suos Aure●ianensis Parochiae Sacerdotes who thus advised them Admonendus est populus ut ad● Sacrosanctum Sacramentum Corporis et Sanguinis Dimini nequaquam indifferenter accedat ●ec ab hoc nimium abstineat sed cum om●i diligentia ●ligat tempus quando aliquandiu ab opere conjugali abstine●t et v●t●s so purget virtutibus exoruet elecmosynis et orationibus insistat et sic ad tantum Sacramentum accedat Quia sicut pe●iculosum est impurum quemque ad ●●ntum Sacramentum accedero Ita etiam periculosum est ab hoc proli●o tempore abstinere Salva ratione illorum qui Excommunica●i non quando eis libet sed certis temporibus communicant et religiosis quibuseunque Sanctè viventibus Qui pene omni vie in faciunt Singulis diebus Dominicis in Quaedragesima praeter hos qui Excommunicati sunt Sacramenta Corporis et Sanguinis Christi sumenda sunt et in Coena Domini et in Parasceve in vigilia Paschae in die Resurrectionis Domini penitus ab omnibus communicundum ●t ipsi dies Paschalis hebdomadae omnes aequali religione colendi sunt The like advise of pressing the people to the frequent receiving of the Lords Supper yet with due preparation and admonishing them withall of the danger of neglecting the Sacrament as well as of the unworthy receiving it is given by the Synod of Lingen Anno 1404 and the Council of t Burdeaux Anno 1582. As also by the Church of England in her Liturgie confirmed by Parliament And this Synod of Lingen withall resolves That if any person for any great Offence or enormous sin be adjudged but not declared and published Excommunicate if he come publikely to receive the Sacrament his Parish Priest may then thus admonish him in secret Amice tu scis quod fecisti tale quid propter quod tu es excommunicatus caveas quid tis vis facere Tu enim si accepis corpus Christi sumes in tuam damnationem Persuadeat sibi quod desistat à perceptione Sacramenti Quod si ille non vult desistere tunc Sacerdos sibi ministret quia in publicis negotiis sacerdos non debet illum excludere sed in privatis non debet secum participare Which I wish our Non communicating Ministers to consider The reason is because he is still a Church-member till actually denounced excommunicated and so not to be actually secluded from any publick Ordinance to which he hath a just right as a Church-member even as every Member of a Kingdom or State though guilty of any Capital crimes desterving death out-lawry disfranchifement or banishment enjoys the benefit of all the Laws Liberties Privileges of the Kingdom State where of he is a Member and cannot be justly debarred of them till actually and judicially out lawed disfranchised exiled or condemned to death for his Offences by the lawfull Magistrate I have lately u published in print what Legal Writs Remedies all injured Parishionous illegally debarred whole years together from this Sacrament by a worse than Papal Sacrilege and usurpation over them may have to compell their refractory Ministers to administer the Lords Supper to them at accustomed seasons according to our Laws and the Articles Rubricks of our Liturgie confirmed by Parliaments To which I shall only adde That I am clear of Opinion that Parishioners in such cases may sue out a special Writ upon the Statutes of 1 E. 6. c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. 2. De Sacramento Eucharistiae Parochianis deliberando Or De Parochianis ad Eucharistiae Sacramentum admittendis By the self-same Justice Law Reason Equity as the x Register and our printed Law-books resolve they may sue forth a Writ De Copia Libelli deliberanda to the Bishop