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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

heard them in English Some alterations were made afterwards in the 2 d of Edw 6. and some by Q Elizabeth and some few by King James but the Body and Essentials of it continued and was preserved for so faith K. Charles the 2 d. In his Preface to the Common-Prayer annext to the Act of Uniformity in these words That we find that in the Reigns of several Princes since the Reformation the Church upon just and weighty Considerations her thereunto moving hath yielded to make such alterations in some particulars as in their respective times were thought convenient yet so as the main Body and Essentials of it as well in the chiefest materials as in the frame and order thereof have still continued the same unto this day and do yet stand firm and unshaken notwithstanding all vain attempts and impetuous assaults made against it by such MEN AS ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE In Confirmation whereof you have the testimony of King James as Mr. Calderwood in his History of the Church of Scotland informs us who tells us that King James in the 8th Session of the General Assembly held at Edenburgh Aug. 4. 1590. said these words in his Speech to them viz The Kirk of Geneva keep Pasch and Yule whereof no Constitution And as for our Neighbour Kirk of England their Service is an evil said Mass in English they want nothing of the Mass but the liftings but that the Kirk of Scotland was the sincerest in the World So that you have the Acknowledgment and Grant of three Kings to the truth hereof that the publick Worship and Service of the Protestant Church of England contained in the English Liturgy and practised in the Church is the same in the main Body and Essentials chiefest Materials Frame and Order with that of the Popish and whoever will take the pains to search into the Popish Breviary Ritual Missal and Pontificial which four comprehend their whole Liturgy will find though there may be some alterations and variations in several particulars yet as the King grants the substance and chiefest materials and order is the same and that ours is taken out of theirs viz. Collects Mattins Eversongs Epistles Gospels Creeds Letanies Consecration Administration of Sacraments Baptism of Infants with Gossips to answer for them Kneeling at the Altar Confiteor Absolution Confirmation Burial Matrimony Visitation of the Sick Ordination of Arch-Bishops Bishops c. And which will appear particularly by what follows Dr. Moore in his Mystery of Iniquity ●ib 2. ch 22. p. 468 says thus For undoubtedly our Her●ieal Reformers did not as is the use of some act out of peevishnes● and spight and please their own humour and impetuosity of Spirit as being part of the chaste Spouse of Christ the true Apostolick Church the Mother of us all deals as a Mother with all those that profess themselves in any sense Children of Christ's Church and therefore would not have them divided more than needs whence it is that out of a spirit of Charity and tender Kindness she has in some things in themselves Indifferent what Indifferent things they are you have heard humbly condescended to symbolize with that lapsed Lady of Rome to bring off her abused Paramours to the pure Worship of God which Condescension as is well known took good effect for some space of Years and the Catholicks joyned in publick prayer and service with us and well they might being as our three Kings have granted so much their own only in the English tongue till that Harlot that makes nothing of having her Children divided forcibly rent off the English Roman Catholick from so reasonable and Christian a Communion and yet saith he does not our Church cease to use this charitable Courtship and sweet Condescension towards them still viz. yet symbolizing with her to win them off to such a Worship as is every way as graceful as their own Dr. Stillingfleet in his Irenicum speaks to this purpose viz. That the great reason why our first Reformers did so far comply with the Papists it was to gain and lay a bait for them and which he hopes was never intended to be a Hook for the Protestants Thirdly Will not the Symbolizing with Popery appear more particularly by comparing our Divine Service in the Common-Prayer and Rubrick with their Divine Service in their Mass-book and Rubrick and how much we have taken them for our pattern and follow their direction in the particulars following viz. First In the time when Divine Service and publick Worship is to be performed Secondly In the Divine Service it self which is to be performed Thirdly In the Rites and Ceremonies performed in Divine Service and Worship First As to the times of Worship their Breviary and Kalendar do divide the year into Feasts Vigils Fasts and Working-days So do we take ours directly from them dividing our Kalendar by theirs both as to Feasts Vigils Fasts Working-days It is true they have more Feasts than we but all ours are found in theirs and taken from them as our Ritual makes manifest For Instance 1. Their Feasts are divided into Movables and fix'd So are ours Their Movable-Feasts and Holy days are Movable Feasts 1. Their Easter-day on which the rest depend is always the first Sunday after the first full Moon which happens next after the 21 st of March and if the full Moon happens upon a Sunday Easter-day is the Sunday after with a Vigil before So ours from them expresly 2. Their Advent-Sunday is always the nearest Sunday to the Feast of St. Andrew whether before or after and to four Sundays after So ours directly 3. Their Septuagesima-Sunday 9 Weeks before Easter So ours 4. Their Sexagesima-Sunday 8 Weeks before Easter So ours 5. Their Quinquagesima-Sund 7 Weeks before Easter So ours 6. Their Quadragesima-Sunday 6 Weeks before Easter So ours 7. Their Rogation-Sunday 5 Weeks after Easter So ours 8. Their Ascention-day is 40 Days after Easter So ours 9. Their Whitsunday with a Vigil 7 Weeks after Easter So ours 10. Their Trinity-Sunday is 8 Weeks after Easter So ours And 24 Sundays after Trinity 2. Their Fixed Feasts are as followeth viz. Fixed Feasts 1. The Circumcision of our Lord Jesus Christ the first of January 2. The Epiphany 6 January 3. Their Conversion of St. Paul 25 January 4. Their Purification of the blessed Virgin with a Vigil 2 February 5. Their St. Matthias 24 Feb. with a Vigil before it 6. Their Anunciation of the Virgin 25 March Vigil 7. Their St. Mark 25 April 8. Their St. Philip and Jacob 1 May. 9. Their St. Barnabas 11 June 10. Their Nativity of St. John Baptist 24 June and Vigil 11. Their St. Peter the 29 June Vigil 12. Their St. James the 25 July Vigil 13. Their St. Bartholomew 24 August and Vigil 14. Their St. Matthew 21 September Vigil 15. Their St. Michael 29 Sept So ours to which we add And all Angels 16. Their St. Luke 18

burt in them yet are so offensive and dreadful to such Persons that they fly from them as they would from a Tyger or Bear and avoid them as they would do the Plague or Poyson Just thus do some men run out of the Church at the sight of a Surplice as if they had been soar'd by the Apparition of a Ghost A late piece call'd A Resolution of Conscience c. supposed to be Dr. Mores affirms thus much 1. That the Government of our Church by Bishops 2. The Liturgy or Set forms of Prayer Admin●stration of Sacraments 3. Certain Rites of the Church particularly the Surplice the Cross in B●ptism the Gesture of Kneeling at the Communion the Ring in Marriage the Observation of the Churches Holy days All which faith he I take for granted are Indifferent in their own Nature that there is nothing of Viciousness or Immorality in any of them to make them unlawfull I know no body saith he so unreasonable as not to Grant this Mr. William Allen in his late piece called Catholicism saith to the same purpose That the Ceremonies of the Church of England are not enjoyned as things of Divine Appointment but only as of an Indifferent Nature and therefore there is no reason to s●r●ple them And again saith That the Ceremonies and Service of the Church or use of things in or about Gods Worship which are not of the Essence of it nor ●s'd under the Nation of being Commanded by God but professedly used as things Indifferent in their own Nature and only as matters of humane 〈◊〉 cannot justly be charged to be false Worship The Author of the Portestant Reconciler tells us That it is 〈…〉 the Church of England that the Ceremonies used 〈…〉 by that Church Imposed on her Members are in their own 〈◊〉 things Indifferent thus saith he In the Preface to the Book of Common Prayer it is determined that the particular forms of Divine Worship and the Rites and Ceremonies to be used therein are in 〈◊〉 own Nature things Indifferent Dr. Stillingfleet and many more spake the same thing So that by Indifferent they would have us to understand things of a Middle Nature that are neither good or bad of themselves otherwise then as injoyned for Order or Prudence by Superiors and alterable at pleasure therefore King James opposeth them to Necessary things which are enjoyned by positive Scripture and so the Protestant Reconciler Defines them telling us thus The Ceremonies which are Imposed by our Church as they have nothing sinfull in their Nature for which Inferiors should Refuse submission to them so have they nothing of real goodness nothing of positive Order Decency or Reverence for which they ought to be Commanded This we are told in words and pretence the better to gild the Pill to make it go down the glibber but if you look more narrowly into the matter you will find that you your selves as well as the Dissenters have justly another sense of them and that the Church of England does both use and Impose them as necessary things whatever they import in their own nature For First are they not things Consecrated and Dedicated to holy uses in the worship and service of God which makes them cease to be Indifferent Hooker saith F●astival dayes are Cloathed with outward Robes of Holiness and that places and times of Divine Worship are so too and the Cross a holy Sign Dr. Burges saith Ceremonies may be called the Worship of God the Professors of Leyden call only such things persons times and places holy as are Consecrated and Dedicated to God but so in their Esteem and our also is their Dioce●an Episcopacy and Priesthood their Churches Liturgies Kneeling Bowing Crossing Festivals Ecclesiastical Courts and Excommunications c. Secondly They are not Indifferent but necessary things in your esteem as appears by the Declaration of 〈◊〉 Commissioners at the Savoy upon the King 's first 〈…〉 over-ruling the Arguments of their Dissenting 〈◊〉 ●leading for Reformation and Tenderness which say● 〈…〉 Apostle hath Commanded that all things be done 〈…〉 there may be conformity let there be 〈◊〉 a 〈…〉 that purpose and thence they inferr'd that 〈…〉 will move to pity and relieve those that 〈◊〉 truly 〈◊〉 and scrupulous that we must not break Gods Command● 〈◊〉 Charity to them and therefore we must not perform publick services indec●ntly and disorderly for the sake of tender Consciences And all this said to justifie the Refusal to abate the Imposition of Ceremonies especially those three then contended about Surplice Sign of the Cross and Kneeling at the Communion So that here they are made necessary and a Command of God urg'd to inforce them viz. That things be done decently and in order though by the way no other Command then Bellarmine urges to Establish the whole Popish Service and Ceremonies of the Church of Rome viz. by this Precept of the Apostle And thirdly Do not they as necessary things Impose and inforce them with all severity imaginable by Excommunications of Dissenters thereby knocking the Fly on the Neighbours head with a Hatchet to the knocking out his Brains as saith Dr. Taylor destroying them in their Liberties Estates yea Lives also which surely must not be for trifles but necessary things Yet so hardy and hold to do all this as the Protestant Reconciler worthily observes to them to the Reproaching the wisdom and faithfulness of Christ and the Primitive Churches for want of such decency and order for they had no such The Wisdom of the Church of England who have declared that their Rites and Ceremonies are in their own Nature things Indifferent and may be alter'd and changed as also that they had their Beginning from the Institution of Man The Wisdom of King James and King Charles who have both of them declared them to be esteemed unnecessary as being but indifferent things and not Commanded by God and therefore alterable at pleasure But especially saith our Author hereby become guilty of adding to the Word of God of Will-worship of teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of men of Imposing these things as necessary parts of Worship and so of worshipping God in vain as 〈…〉 will appear by what the best Assertors of the 〈…〉 of the Church of England have declared in this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mr. Faulkner's Assertion in saying hereupon We 〈◊〉 the Word of God when we teach any thing to be commanded or forbidden by the Law of God which indeed is not there commanded or forbidden And Bishop S●nderson That then men teach for Doctrines the Commandments of men when they teach any thing to be absolutely unlawful which God hath not forbidden in his Word and if any man shall wear a Surplice or Kneel or Cross with an opinion of necessity and for Conscience-sake towards God as though God's service could not be rightly performed without them yea although the Church had not performed them doubtless the

thought fit to be Expunged as giving matter of Scandal and Dissatsfaction to all that Party or that otherwise wished well to that Religion In the first Liturgy of K. Edward The Sacrament of the Lords Body was Delivered with this Benediction That is to say The Body of our Lord Jesus which was given for the preservation of thy Body and Soul to Life Everlasting c. The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ Which being thought by Calvin and his Disciples to give some Countenance to the Cross and Carnal Presence of Christ in the Pacrament which passeth by the Name of Transubstantiation in the School of Rome was Altered into this Form into the said Liturgy That is to say Take and Eat this in Remembrance that Christ dyed for thee and feed on him in thy heart by Faith with thansgiving Take and Drink this c. But the Revisors of the Book joyned both Forms togither least under colour of Rejecting a Carnal they might be thought also to Deny such a Real Presence as was Defended in the writing of the Antient Fathers upon which ground she Expunged also a whole Rubrick at the end of the Communion Service by which it was declared that kneeling at the Participation of the Sacrament were required for no other Reason then for the Signification of the humble and grateful Acknowledgment of the Benefits of Christ given therein unto the worthy Receiver and to avoid that prophanation and disorder which otherwise might have ensued and not for giving any Adoration to the Sacramental Bread and Wine there Bodily Received or in regard of any Real or Essential presence of Christs Body and Blood and to come close to the Church of Rome it was ordered by the Queens Injunctions That the Sacrametal Bread which the Book Required only to be made of the finest Flower should be made round in fashion of the Wafers used in the time of Q. Mary She also ordered that the Lords Table should be placed where the Altar stood that the Accustomed Reverence should be made at the Name of Jesus Musick Retayned in the Church and all the Old Festivals observed with their several Eves by which Complyances and Expunging of the passage before mentioned the Book was made so passable amongst the Papists that for ten years they generally Repaired to their Parish Churches without doubt or scruple as is affirmed not only by Sir Edward Cook in his Speech against Garnet and his Charge given at the Assizes held at Norwich but also by the Queen her self in a Letter to Sir Francis Walsingham then her Embassador in France The same Confessed by Sanders also in his Book De Schismat● and therefore Dr. Heilin in a few Pages after adds viz. And now we may behold the Face of the Church of England as it was first setled and Established under Q. Elizabeth the Government of the Church by Arch-bishops and Bishops c. The Liturgy Conform to the Primitive Pattorn viz. of Popery and all the Rites and Ceremonies therin Prescribed Accomodated to the Honour of God and Encrease of Piety the Festivals Preserved in their former Dignity Observed with all their Distinct Offices Peculiar to them and Celebrated with a Religious Concorse of all sorts of People the Weekly Fasts viz. Weenesdays Fridays and Saturdays The holy time of Lent The Embring Weeks Together with the fast of the Rogation Severally kept by a forbeara●ce of all kind of Flesh not now by Vertue of the Statute as in the Time of King Edw. but as appointed by the Church in her publick Callender before the Book of Common Prayer So Correspondant with Rome The Sacrament of the Lords Supper Celebratited in most Reverend Manner The hoby Table Seated in the Place of the Altar The people making their due Reverence at their first Enterance into the Church Kneeling at the Communion The Confession and the Publick Prayers standing up at the Creed the Gospels and the Gloria Patri and Vsing the Accustomed Reverence at the Name of Jesus Musick Retained in all the Churches in which provision had been made for the Maintenance of it or where the people could be Trained up at least to plain Song all which particulars were either Established by the Laws or Commanded by the Queens Injunctions or otherwise Retained by Vertue of some Antient Vsuages not by Law Prohibited nor is it much to be admired that such a general Conformity to those Cntient viz. Popish Vsuages was constantly Observed in all Cathedrals and the most part of the Parish Churches considering how well they were Presidented by the Court it self in which the Liturgy was Officiated every day both Morning and Evening not only in the publick Chappel but the private Closet Celebrated in the Chappel with Organs and other Musical Instruments and the most Excellent Voices of Men and Children that could be got in all the Kingdom the Gentlemen and Children in their Surplices and the Priests in Copes as oft as they Attended the Divine Service at the Holy Altar The Altar furnished with Rich Plate Two fair Guilt Candlesticks with Tapers in them and a Massy Crucifix of Silver in the midst thereof which last remained there for some years till it was Broke in pieces by Pa●h the Fool no wisor man daring to undertake such a Desperate Service at the Sollictation of Sir Frances Knoles the Queens near Kinsman by the Caries and one who openly appeared in Favour of the Shism at Frankford the Antient Ceremonies accustomably observed by the Knights of the Garter in their Adoration towards the Altar abolished by King Edward the 6th and revived by Queen Mary whereby this Queen Retained as formerly in her Fahers Time for which she Received both Thanks and Honour from the very Enemies viz. the Papists as appears by Hardings Epistle Dedicatory before his answer to the Apology So far Dr. Heilin Thus from what the Sons of the Church Cambden and Burnet and Heilin have Affirmed 'T is Apparent that Queen Elizabeth had a Natural propensity to favour the Papists and that this was Discovered by her making the Terms of Communion much more easie to the Papists in K. Edw. Time whereby she became the more Difficult and Arduous to the Protestant Dissenters and whom she Rigorously Prosecuted for their Dissents Cambden Informs us That about the year 1583. The Queen Who held it for a Maxim that she ought not to be more Remiss in Ecclesiastical Affairs advancing Whitgift from the Sea of Worcester to that of Canterbury above all Commanded him to Re-establish the Discipline of the Church of England that as then lay Dismembred by the connivency of Prelates The Obstinacy of Innovators and by the Power of some Great Ones whilst some Ministers using to their own fancy new Rites of Services in their private houses utterly Condemning the Liturgy and the Appointed Manner of Administring the Sacrament as being in many things contrary to the Scripture and therefore many refused to go to Church to Abolish which things

Jews and Pagans To the same Purpose Mr. Greenham and Mr. Marbury That Agreeing with us most of the Reformed Divines do hold 1. That those Laws that we have Alledged out of the Old Testement against the Monument of Idolatry do bind us as much as they did the Jews and from them they Conclude as we have done That all Reliques of Popish and heathenish Superstition are to be Banished out of the Church of Christ of this Judgment are Calvin Martyr Grineus Wolphins Vrsinus Machabeus Zanchius Simetrus Zepperus our own Book of Homilies Dr. Fulk and others 2. That Hezekiah Josiah and the rest of the Godly Kings of Juda which shewed most Zeal in Abolishing those things which had been abused by Idolatry did no more then they were bound by the Law of God to do And that from their Example the Argument holds strong against the Monuments of Idolatry now because all Christians are Bound to Imitate their Zeal therein Of this Judgment was Augustin Calvin Martyr Wolphins Eevator Zanchius Bishop Jewil Bilson Dr. Fulck Dr. Raynold Dr. Andrews Mr Perkins and Others 3. That the Retaining of Popish Ceremonies will certainly be a means to indanger the Doctrine that we profess and to bring the People back to Popery this was the judgment of the People of Saxony and them of Humburgh and of Luther 4. That the Retaining of the Ceremonies of Idolaters will Cause them to insult over our Religion as if it could not stand without help from them and to harden them in their likeing of their own Idolatry this Reason hath bee used against Conformity with the Jews by Constantine the Emperor and by all the Fathers in the first Counsel of Nice and against Conformity with the Papists Begentiis Musculus Bishop Jewel and Others 5. We are Confirmed in this our Perswasion that it is unlawful to Retain the Ceremonies of the Papists by Experience of the Great hurt they have done and do Dayly in the Church for we find that some of the Learnedest of the English Papists Namely Martial Bristow and he that penned the petition for the Papists which Dr. Stutliff and Mr. Powel have Answered have by this Argument Justifyed their Church and Religion that we have borrowed our Ceremonies from them yea some of them as Harding Martial and he that Writ the Astrological Epistle for our English Papists have professed that this was to them an Evident Argument that Q. Elizabeth did in her Conscience like well of their Religion because She liked and maintained their Ceremonies and the Superstitious Multitude do usually defend the Blessing of themselves with Crossing their Breasts and Foreheads by our Crossing our Children in Baptism So far the Abridgment And to which we may add this further Testimony following viz. Altas Damas p. 612 613. tells us That from three Romish Channels was the English Service raked together namely 1st The Breviary out of which the Common-Prayers are taken 2dly The R●tual or Book of Rites out of which the Administration of Sacraments Burial Matrimony Visitation of the Sick are taken 3dly The Mass-Book out of which the Cons●cration of the Lords Supper Collects Gospels and Epistles are taken Bishop Hall in his Quo Vadis saith That his Eyes and Ears can witness with what applause the Catholicks entertained the new translated Liturgy of our Church Mr. Thomas Gage in his English American chap. 22. p. 205 thus expresseth himself I conti●ued twelve Moneths at my Vnoles House at Gatton searching though unknown to my Vncle and Kindred into the Doctrine and Truth of the Gospel professed in England for which cause I made many Journies to London and then privately I resorted to some Churches and especially to Paul's Church to see the Service performed and to hear the Word of God preached but so that I might not be seen known or discovered by and Papist When in Pauls Church I heard the Organs and the Musick and the Prayers and the Collects and saw the Ceremonies at the Altar I remembred Rome again and perceived little difference betwixt the two Churches I searched further into the Common-Prayer and carried with me a Bible into the Country on purpose to compare the Prayers Epistles and Gospels with a Mass-Book which there I had at command and I found no difference but only English and Latine which made me wonder and to acknowledge that much remained still of Rome in the Church of England and that I feared my Calling was not right And p. 209. tells us That upon his return afterwards to Rome that Father Fitz Herbert told him that the Common-Prayer Book which was composed for Scotland was by Arch-Bishop Laud sent to Rome to be first viewed and approved by the Pope and Cardinals and who upon the perusal did approve thereof and liked very well for Protestants to be trained in such a form of Prayer and Service c. Great Cerus Panegyer Missae cap. 11. 12. alledgeth against the Reformed Churches the English Service-Book for their Popish Holy-days the Book of Canons for the Sign of the Cross and Kneeling at the Altar and for the whole Hierarchy c. Cornelpis Scultingius in his Hyerarchica Anicrists citeth whole Leaves out of Whitegift for the defence of their Hierarchy Stapleton Reflect against Whitaker Cont. 2. Qu. 3. Art 3. useth Whitegift's Argument to uphold their Discipline and professeth they are built upon one Foundation They further say as Paep Sapp Anno 1604. Reas of Relig. 13 That from their Treasure-House the Religion now established in England hath learned the form of Christening Marrying Churching of Women visiting the Sick Burying the Dead c. as their Book say they translated out of ours declares Curtaine Of Ch. Power p. 40. saith That he heard one of the Jesuits say that it was his hopes that our Service and Ceremonies would return us again to Rome Another Objection is this That whilst they separate for indifferent and about disputable things they do violate a known plain positive Scripture which enjoyns the Inferiors to be obedient and subject to their Superiors The Protestant Reconciler 2 part urges it as an Objection brought against the Diffenters compar'd with 1 part p. 198. That seeing God hath enjoyned all Persons to obey those that have the Rule over them Heb. 13. 17 and submit themselves and to be subject to the higher Powers as to the Ordinance of God and that for Conscience sake He that can satisfie his Conscience in his Refusal so to do must shew some Law of God as evidently forbidding his Obedience to what Superiors do enjoyn as do these Scriptures command OBEDIENCE to them in ALL LAWFUL THINGS And you tell us in your Scrupulous Conscience pag. 33. That these things of a publick Nature belong only to our Superiors and Governours and if they appoint what is unfit indecent and inconvenient they only are accountable for it It is not the fault of those that joyn in such Worship or yield to such Injunctions NOT PLAINLY SINFUL