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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03688	An account of Mr. Edward Sclater's return to the communion of the Church of England and of the recantation he made at the Church of St. Mary Savoy, the fifth of May, 1689. Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Sarum, preaching the sermon there that forenoon. / By Anthony Horneck D.D.	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing H2816; ESTC R178249	11,650	15

with whom it was not enough to confess many idle Words many angry Expressions to my Boys when unruly or undiligent but I must name a particular Sin or I could not be absolved one at least I suppose he expected a huge matter but any one served turn and then the business might be done I could not well tell the Hearts of them but it seemed to me either a way of giving Absolution very easily or else the squeezing out a particular they might if they please make use of toward the obtaining the greater Power over us and keeping us by consequence in more Awe especially when I also considered That two other Priests guilty to my knowledge of more heinous sins than I bless God I had any to confess received every day without Confession or Absolution unless they could confess and absolve themselves however I could not but account their so officiating rather a Desecration than a Consecration To tell you that I was never throughly satisfyed in the Points of Liturgy in an unknown Tongue and non participation of the Cup is but to tell the plain Truth I must confess I huddled them both into the Power and Authority of the Church and so their Arguments went the easier down But as to the first I found manifest ill Consequences from it my whole Family besides my self not only totally Ignorant of what was meant all the while the Priest was officiating but do what I could at a loss in what they had to do themselves and still complaining my Wife especially that she was nothing satisfyed or bettered But one thing I cannot ommit She was visited with the violent Pain of the Sciatica we both of us desired the Priest to pray for ease of her Pain which he refused with this uncomfortable Reply That she must bear what God was pleased to lay upon her I could not but think Counsel tho' very good without Prayers of the Church very uncomfortable Perhaps his Breviary had no such provision in it Tho' at the same time the little Children would frequently go to their Manuals and Beads in her behalf A third Observation I made was of their almost utter neglect of informing and instructing those under their Charge it was enough it seems they were so seldom sometimes not once a fortnight Catetechising tender little Ones and when they did it a short foddering not above half a quarter of an hour serv'd the turn and that without any Explanation either of Question or Answer But yet to give them their due if they could find one abroad that would so listen to their discourses as gave them any small hopes they were to be prevailed upon they would spend hours every day with them but this methought look'd like stealing of Sheep and starving of Lambs To back this their Negligence was altogether as great in other Duties of a Family for even on Sundays not one word but the Mass and then all their Work was totally done Not so much as calling us to Prayers in the Afternoon nay rather signifying to us the no necessity of them by their continual Absence from us at the time we were at them but frequently taking a walk at that time A fourth Grievance was That in our Discourses especially the Subject of Praying for the Dead I told the Priest That every time I said Requiescant in pace I could not for my Heart forget my dead Mother He asked me If she was a Catholick I told him No. He replyed I must not by any means use that Prayer for her 'T was very harsh I thought and so much uncharitable that it seemed to me unnatural I am sure she led a better Life than he more Just more Devout and believe her Ignorance will plead for her before the great Tribunal more effectually than all the Sanctity he had in him Nor was their Carriage in my House less troublesom and unhandsom as this single instance among many may sufficiently make appear One of them finds one of the School boys very fit for his purpose and his Office was When this Priest at any time should be absent to observe all the Family without exception and to give him an account when he came home of all that had passed or had been spoken Which my Wife chiding the Boy for the Priest managed him in it in these words Why is there any thing to be said or done in this House and I must not know it This was a Yoak upon me I never so much as dream'd of for till then I thought my self Master of my own House and my House my Castle thô never after so long as I had such an overtopping Dominion over me That these Particulars can be reconcileable with that Piety I expected to find in that Church I shall for ever think impossible So that as to the Unity of the Church I must conclude it must consist Pardon the newness of the Expression in being Nerv'd and Sinew'd to Dissenting Members in Fundamental Points and Charity And I can now easily conceive how Errors and Ignorance might creep into the Church whilst the ancient Governours of that Church were more eager of Dominion than careful of Doctrine and their Inferiors aimed more at Gain than Godliness Sir These as I told you in my last are but Personal Observations in my own Family but ex pede Herculem whatsoever the Learned Writers of the Church of England have Writ of their more publick Exorbitancies will now easily find belief with me upon the score of these which my own experience has found too true When his Grace shall according to his wonted Candour receive this unfeigned account of my Disgusts I hope he will assure himself that my Repentance is as unfeigned and sincere as these are so true that I can safely take my Oath of before any Judicature in the whole World a thousand times over In the mean time I do assure him I condemn my self greatly and cannot enough for my unadvised and rash embracing that Religion that has approv'd it self to me so utterly contrary to my expctation I have nothing to assure him of my unfeigned Sorrow for my Fault but the words of my Mouth God only knows the Heart upon all the Examination I can make I am unfeignedly sorrowful for it None but our Saviour knew the Hearts of Enemies yet his Church by his command have alwayes forgiven Penitents I presume none will be a greater follower of his Example and Precepts than my Mother the Church of England whose Pardon I as comfortably hope for as I humbly beg it I never yet heard her Clemency deny'd it I humbly beg her to admit me to her Communion upon the Terms the Primitive Church admitted the ancient Lapsi whether of the Clergy or Laity LETTER II. To His Grace the Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY May it please Your Grace ACcording to what you have been pleas'd to Command I have sent You my unhappy Book and also my firm Resolution to retract all