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A69915	A plea for the Non-Conformists giving the true state of the dissenters case, and how far the Conformists separation from the Church of Rome, for their Popish superstitions and traditions introduced into the service of God, justifies the Non-Conformists separation from them for the same : in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, upon his sermon, called, Scrupulous conscience, inviting hereto : to which is added, A parallel scheme of the pagan, papal and Christian rites and ceremonies : with a narrative of the sufferings underwent for writing, printing and publishing hereof / by Thomas De Laune.	De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.; Danson, Thomas, d. 1694.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Eikōn tou thēriou.; De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685. Narrative of the sufferings of Thomas Delaune.	1684 (1684)	Wing D893; Wing D891; Wing D892; ESTC R12757	93,215	122

in our Memory so are we still firme in the Resolution of performing them to the full And we do conceive our selves so far ingaged in honour and in what we own to the Peace of our Dominion which we profess we can never think secure whilst there shall be a Colour left to the Malicious and dissafected to inflame the minds of so many multitudes upon the Score of Conscience with dispair of ever ob●aneing effect of our promises for their Ease His Majesties Speech to both Houses Feb. 10. 1667. Declares thus viz. One thing more I hold my self Obliged to recommend unto you at this Cresent which is that you would seriously think of some Course to beget a better Vnion and Composure in the minds of my Protestant Subjects in matters of Religion whereby they may be induced not only to submit quietly to the Government but also chearfully give their assistance to the Support of it And In his Declaration of Indulgence March 15. 1671. Saith That it was evident by the sad experience of twelve years that here was very little fruit of all those forcible Courses and many frequent ways of Coercion that we have used for the reducing of all erring or dissenting persons And thereupon granted his Indulgence Again in his Speech to both Houses 1678. Says thus I meet you here with the most earnest desire that man can have to Vnite the minds of all my Subjects both to me and one to another and Resolve it shall be your Fault if the Success be not suitable to my Desires Hereupon the Parliament Jen. 10. 1680. From their owne inclination known Experience as well as in Obedience to his Gracious Direction did for the Relieving and better Vniting all his Protestant Subjects Declare in their Vote Nemine Contradicente That it is the Opinion of this House that the Prosecution of Protestant Dissenters upon the Penal Laws is at this time grievous to the Subject a Weakning the Protestant Intrest an Encouragement to Popery and Dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom And No. 6. 1680. Resolved Nemine Contradicente That 〈◊〉 is the Opinion of this House that the Acts of Parliament made in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and K. James against Popish Recusants ought not to be extended against Protestant Dissenters having divers Laws under Consideration as his Majesty directed for the Releiving Composing and Vniting the Protestants A Bill having passed both Houses for Repealing the 35th of Elizabeth Thus you see that Imposition and Persecution for Conscience doth not only Symbolize with Antichrist but is in the highest contradiction to the Name Nature Gospel and followers of Christ a violent infringer of the Law and light of nature of doing to others as he would be done unto as well as the Royal Law of loving our Neighbour as our selves and in utter enmity not only to these worthy Sentiments of our Learned and Great Men but of our Latter Kings and Parliaments As a farther Ratification and Confirmation that our English Service and Ceremony was from the Popish Race and Succession Take this following Historical Account Given us by some Eminent Writers and Famous Sons of the Church of England Cambden in the Life of Queen Elizabeth assures us That the Change of Religion was not in her time Suddenly made but by Little and little by Degrees for the Roman Religion Continued in the same State it was First a full Month and more After the Death of Q. Mary The 27th of December it was Tollerated to have the Epistles and Gospels the Tens Commandments the Symbole the Letany and the Lords Prayer in the Vulgar Tongue The Twenty Second of March the Parliament being Assembled the Order of Ewd. 6. was Re-established and by Act of the same the whole use of the Lords Supper Granted under both kinds The 24th of June by the Authority of that which Concern'd the Vniformity of publick Prayers and Administration of the Sacrament the Sacrifice of the Mass was abolished and the Liturgy in the English Tongue more and more Established In the Month of July the Oath of Allegiance was Proposed to the Bishops and other Persons And in August Images were thrown out of the Temples and Churches and Broken and Burnt Thus far Cambden Gives us the Steps Queen Elizabeth took in the Reformation what She cast off by degrees and so Consequently what she Retained Which was the Rest of the Popish Rites and Ceremonies and which She had a Great Love to and Liking of which was the Reason there was no Greater Alteration Whereof we have this Account from Dr. Burnit in his History of Reformation Queen Elizabeth Received some Impressions in her Fathers Reign in Favour of such Old Rites as he had still Retained and in her own Nature Loving State and some Magnificence in Religion as well as in every thing else She thought that in her Brothers Reign they had Stript it too much of External Ornaments and had made their Doctrine too Narrow in some Points therefore She intended to have some things Explained in more General Terms that so all Parties might be Comprehended by them She Inclined to keep up Images in Churches and to have the Manner of Christs Presence in the Sacrament Left in some General Words That those who Believed the Corporal Presence might not be Drawn away from the Church by too Nice an Explanation of it So far Dr. Burner In Pursuance of these Resolves the Queen Attemps the Accomodating matters of Religion so unto the Romish Clergy as to take them into the Communion of the Church of England as Dr. Heylin affirms She so Effectually Compassed that for several years the Papists Continued in the Communion of the Church and when they did forsake it it was not because they Approved not of our Liturgy but upon politick Considerations and because the Counsel of Trent had commanded it and Pope Pius the 5th had Excommunicated the Queen and Discharged her Subjects from their Allegiance and made the Going or not Going to Church a Sign Distinctive to Difference A Roman Catholick from an English Protestant Concerning which take Dr. Heilins own words in his History of Queen Elizabeth There past another Act for Recommending and Imposing the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments according to such Alteration and Correction as were made therein by thoso who were Appointed to Revise it as before is said in the persuance of which Service there was great care taken for the Expunging all such passages in it as might give any Scandal or Offence to the Popish party or be urged by them in their Excuse for their not coming to Church and joyning with the rest of the Congregation in Gods Publick Worship In the Letany first made and published by K. Henry the Eighth and afterwards continued in the two Liturgies of K. Edward the sixth There was a Prayer to be delivered from the Tyranny and all the detestable enormities of the Bishops of Rome which was

before the 25th year of his Age. 6. Archia-Diaconis offerens The Arch-Deacon presenting those who are to be promoted to the Order of Deacons each of them being decently habited unto the Bishop sitting in his Seat before the Altar saith Reverend Father 7. The Bishop shall ask Do you know them to be worthy The Arch-Deacon shall answer As much as humane Frailty suffers me to know I know and tes●ifie that they are worthy 8. The Bishop shall speak to the Clergy and People If any one hath ought against these Persons let him come forth and with Confidence speak for God and before God 9. Lastly the Bishop takes and delivers to them all the Book of the Gospel saying Receive the power of reading the Gospel in the Church of God 10. The Bishop shall say the Ministers and Chaplains answering Lord have mercy upon us O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us that it may please thee to bless sanctifie and consecrate these Elect. R. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. 11. They sing one and the same Hymn only the one is in Latine the other in English Veni Creator Spiritus Mentes tuarum visita c. 12. The Bishop shall lay his hands upon the head of each of them kneeling upon their knees before him saying to every one Receive the Holy Ghost whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven and whose sins thou dost retain they are retained 13. The Peace of God be always with you the Blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and holy Ghost descend upon you English Pontificial 1. WE daclare That no Deacons or Ministers be Ordained but only upon the Sundays immediately following Jejuna quatuor temporum commonly call'd Ember-weeks Co●sti● Can. Eccl. Can. 31. 2. And this be done in the Cathedral or Parish-Church where the Bishop resideth and in the time of divine Service in the presence not only of the Arch-Deacon but of the Dean Ibid. 3. And here it must be declared unto the Deacon that he must continue in that Office the space of a whole year except for reasonable causes it shall otherwise seem good unto the Bishop The Book of Ordering Priests and Deacons 4. The Bishop before he admit any Person to holy Orders shall diligently examine him in the presence of those Ministers that shall assist him at the Imposition of hands Can 35. 5. None shall be admitted a Deacon except he be 23 years of Age and every man which is admitted a Priest shall be full 24 years old The Preface to the manner and form of making Priests and Deacons 6. The Arch-Deacon or his Deputy shall present unto the Bishop sitting in his Chair near to the holy Table such as desire to be ordained Deacons each of them being decently habited saying these words Reverend Father 7. The Bishop shall say Take heed that the Persons whom you present unto us be apt and meet for their Learning The Arch-Deacon shall answer I have enquired of them and also examin'd them and think them so to be 8. Then the Bishop shall say to the People Brethren if there be any of you who knoweth any Impediment or notable Crime in any of these Persons let him come forth in the Name of God and shew what it is 9. Then the Bishop shall deliver to every one of them the New-Testament saying Take thee Authority to read the Gospel in the Church of God 10. The Bishop with the Clergy and People shall sing or say the Letany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy on miserable Sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy on us that it may please thee to bless these thy Servants Respon We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. 11. They sing one and the same Hymn only the one is in Latine the other in English Come Holy Ghost our Souls inspire And enlighten with Celestial fire 12. The Bishop shall lay his hands severally upon the heads of every one that receive the Order of Priesthood the Receivers humbly kneeling upon their Knees and the Bishop saying Receive the Holy Chost whose sins thou dost forgive they are forgiven and whose sins thou dost Retain they are retained 13. The Peace of God And the blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Of all which Progress not one word in all the New-Testament AND as a further Confirmation of our Symbolizing with Popery in our Rites and Service take a few Instances First That the Papists not only so long approv'd our Liturgy and kept their Communion in our Church in that Worship as before Remark't from Dr. More but also that the Popes themselves have offered to Confirm the same as Doctor Morton's Appeal discovers and that Pope Pius the 4 th and Gregory 13. offered to Queen Elizabeth to Confirm the English Liturgy as Camden in the Life of Queen Elizabeth testifies Dr. Boys produceth the Pope's Letter and Bristow's Approbation in his 39 th Motive And that the Jesuit Dr. Carryer saith That the Common Prayer and Catechism contain nothing contrary to the Romish Service Mountague asserts that our Service is the same in most things with the Church of Rome and that the Differences are not so great that we should make any separation Two famous Instances more we have mentioned in a Book called The Common Prayer-book Vnmasked p. 9. One of a Jesuit who coming not many years since to the Service at Pauls declared he lik't it exceeding well neither had he any Exception to it but that it was not done by their Priests The other that upon the Pope's Bull that Interdicted Queen Elizabeth Secretary Walsingham procured two Persons to come into England from the Pope to whom he shew'd the London and Canterbury Service in their Cathedrals in all the Pomp of it who thereupon declared that they wondred the Pope should be so ill informed and advised to interdict a Prince whose Service and Ceremonies so symboliz'd with his own and therefore returning to Rome they possess'd the Pope that they saw no Service Ceremonies or Orders in England but might very well serve in Rome whereupon the Bull was Recalled As to the taking of Collects out of the Mass-book 't is said by the Resolver p. 43. That if those prayers are good which he affirms to be very good then such a symbolizing he saith cannot make them bad To which it is Reply'd that the goodness or badness of Worship and Service as to the matter and form is to be measured not by our Fancies but the Rule of God's Word But we do not find any such pattern of shreds of Prayers or Collects to be said or sung though such things Pope Gregory found in the Ritual of Numa Pompilius which were said or sung in their Processions to their Gods The Al●aron Talmud and Apocripha may have as we suppose good things in

Church of God because then we give unto a Creature that service which is due unto God only Cont. Maxim lib. 1. Arg. 11. de Spir. Sancto Erasmus upon Austin 's words hath in the Margent marked thus This is done now to each one of the Divi or Saints viz. not a Church erected without such a Dedication Pope Vitellia●us brought in Organs and other Musical Instruments into the Church about the 8 th Century Bell de bon oper lib. 1. c. 7. Rogation-week or Gauge-days were Ordained by Pope Leo 444. as saith Platina Massaeus and Polidor Virgil. Pope Zacharias in the year 737 Ordained Priests Gowns Tippets and Four-corned Caps Chron. Achil. Faseicul Temp. Pope Boniface Ordained Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays Fasts as saith Platina And that Anno 425 Pope Boniface Ordained Vigils or Saints Eves Fasts as Polidor Virgil and Pantaleon affirm To which is called the Apostles Creed was not as now in our Liturgy known in the Primitive times but has past great alterations 1. It is manifest the Fathers in the first Ages do give us the Creed in other words not one of them giving us this Form for above 300 years after Christ Ignatius Irenaeus Origen Tertullian write the Churches Faith but none of them in this form 2. We have Bishop Vsher that great searcher into Antiquity giving us an account of the Additions made to it in his Dissert de Symbol p. 16. viz. Maker of Heaven and Earth was a new Addition not in the ancient Copies 2. Conceived is added the old form is Born of the Holy Ghost 3. the word Dead is added 4. Descended into Hell is added 5. the Name of God Almighty to the Articles of Christ's sitting at the right hand of God 6. Catholick is added to Holy Church 7. Communion of Saints is added And 8. Life everlasting is added And which Additions faith Bishop Vsher were not made at once but at several times And the Bishop affirms that the Nicene was as Confidently and more Anciently called the Apostles Creed As for the Athanasian Creed Quicunque vult c. fathered upon Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria in the 4th Age It appears to be otherwise and to have no such stamp of Primitive Antiquity as Dr. Burnet Hist of Reform Part 2. B. 1. p. 167. informs us viz. That they went according to the Received opinion that Athanasius was the Author of that Creed which is now found not to have been Compiled till near three Ages after him Secondly It doth appear that what was of pure Antiquity and in use in those first Centuries viz. 2 3 4 are either not used or blotted out of the Liturgies having been heretofore in use The Protestant Reconciler Part 1. Chap. 8. from pag. 261. to 299 gives an account of the Ancient Rites and Ceremonies in use amongst the Ancient Churches and Fathers now laid aside viz. Love-feasts Kiss of Charity Deaconesses Praying standing from Easter till Whit sunday Dipping or Plunging the Baptized yea the Trine Immersion Deferring Baptison till Easter and Whitsunday Exorcism Sufflation Anointing the Sick Chrism White Garment Milk and Honey to the New Baptized giving the Eucharist to the Infant from the 3d to the 12th Century mingling Water with the Sacramental Wine All eating of one Loaf in the Supper to send the Eulogiae or Broken Bread to the absent to receive standing or in a Table Gesture to pray for the Dead c. All which are Rejected And many of these though in the first Common-Prayer in Edward the Sixth's time laid aside as the said Author p. 298. tells us concluding thus Hence we may see how vainly 't is pretended that these Ceremonies were retained or imposed to manifest the Justice and Equity of the Reformation by letting their Enemies see they did not break Communion with them for meer Indifferent things or that they left the Church of Rome no farther than she left the ancient Church as saith Dr. Stillingfleet When 't is manifest saith he that we left off praying for departed Saints the Vnction of the Sick the mixing Water with the Sacramental Wine the Chrysm Exorcism the anointing the baptised Person Crossing the Breast and at the Consecration of the Eucharist and the baptismal Water with many other things which were retained in the ancient Church and in the Liturgy of Edw. 6. Thus you see that notwithstanding the great cry of Symbolizing with Primitive Antiquity and not at all with Rome that the latter appears to be as true as the other is false their Litnrgies Rites and Ceremonies being as said a Composition of Pagan Papal Inventions with some Novel Additions of their own and Primitive Antiquity almost wholly excluded And it is very observable to consider what Alterations have been made in Edw. the Sixth's Liturgy to gratifie the Papists as omitting that Clause of the Letany FROM THE BISHOP OF ROME AND ALL HIS DETESTABLE ENORMITIES and that in the Commination CURSED BE THE WORSHIPPERS OF IMAGES and have left out that Exhortation which is condemned as a most vile abomination in their usual Masses where People Gaze but do not Communicate Secondly In the next place it will appear that as we do not Symbolize with Antiquity in our Rites and Ceremonies that we do symbolize in most if not in all of them with Popery though so positively denied by the learned Which is manifest first by the several particulars before mentioned for as the Church of England doth not symbolize with Primitive Antiquity therein as it is plain they do not if our Authors speak true so they do fully symbolize with Popish Novelty as the proofs make manifest both in Kneeling at the Altar Cross in Baptism Surplice c. Secondly This symbolizing with Popery in our Rites and Ceremonies appears by what is fully owned and acknowledged by Parties themselves The principal part of Worship both as to matter and manner performed in the Church of England is contained in the Rubrick or Service-Book by Law established which in the beginning of the Reformation in H. 8. time was no other than the Romish Liturgy some parts only being translated into English viz. the Creed Pater-Noster Ten Commandments and Letany Edw. 6. went further translating it all into English yet retaining the same Service word for word except some alterations for so Mr. Fox tells us in the King and Councils Letter to the Devonshire men about the alteration of their Mass-book who by the Instigation of their Priests had been stirred up to Rebellion wherein it is thus told them as recorded Act. Mon. 2 Vol. p. 1189. As for the Service in the English tongue it perchance seems to you a New Service and yet indeed it is NO OTHER BUT THE OLD THE SELF-SAME WORDS in English for NOTHING is altered but to speak with Knowledge that which was spoken with Ignorance only a few things taken out so fond that it had been a shame to have