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A56184	A moderate, seasonable apology for indulging just Christian liberty to truly tender consciences, conforming to the publike liturgy in not bowing at, or to the name of Jesus, and not kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper, according to His Majesties most gracious declaration to all his loving subjects concerning ecclesiastical affairs ... / by William Prynne, Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing P4011; ESTC R5505	132,513	174

of the Lord and Christ comming to Judgement the comming of the Lord and He with referrence to this day the Lord So himself expresly saith that Good and Bad shall then joyntly confesse him to be call him Lord witnesse Mat. 7.21 22. 15.11 Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven c. Many will say to me in that day to wit the day of Judgement Lord have we not prophesied in thy Name c. But most full and expresse is that of Mat. 25.35 to 45. When the Son of man shall come in his glory and all his Holy Angels with him then shall he sit upon the Throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered all Nations and he shall seperate them one from another as a Shepherd divideth his Sheep from the Goats And he shall set the Sheep on his right hand and the Goats on his lest Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father c. Then shall the righteous answer him saying LORD when saw we thee an hungred and fed thee c. Here we have all the Sheep that is all righteous men at the day of Judgement joyntl● calling Christ LORD whiles they stand before his Tribunal receiving a sentence of absolution and a Heavenly Kingdom Then shall he say to them also on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire c. Then shall they also say unto him LORD when saw wee thee an hungred c. Here wee have all the Goats that i● all wicked men whosoever at the day of Judgement joyntly calling Christ LORD to the glory of God the Father Therefore this name LORD being unquestionably the name above every name which every tongue shall then joyntly confess must be the name above every name in which every knee must bow as these scriptures p●ove pas● all contradiction To clear this up yet more fully by other Texts consider that memorable place of Iude 14 15. And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophecyeth of these saying Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Iudgement upon all in the general day of Judgement and to convince all that are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Then compare it with Psal. 96. 98. which thus prophecy of Christs Kingdome and comming to judge the world under this very Title of LORD repeated no lesse th●n 16. times O sing unto the LORD a new Song sing unto the LORD all the earth Sing unto the LORD c. For the LORD is great and greatly to be feared he is to be feared above all Gods F●r all the Gods of the Nations are idols but the LORD mad● the heavens Honour and Majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his Sanctuary Give unto the LORD O ye kinreds of the people give unto the LORD glory and strength Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name c. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holinesse fear before him all the earth Say among the Heathen that the LORD reigneth he shall judge the people righteously c. Make a joyfull noise before the LORD the King Let the heavens rejoyce c. before the LORD for ●e cometh to Iudge the Earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth So Psal. 7 8. The LORD shall judge the people judge me O LORD according to my righteousnes● Psal 110.1.6 The LORD said unto my LORD sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool c. The LORD at thy right hand shall strike through Kings in the day of his wrath he shall judge among the Heathen Psal. 135.13 14. Thy name O LORD endureth for ever thy memorial O LORD to all Generations for the LORD will judge his people Isay 3.13.14 The LORD will stand up to Iudge the people the LORD will enter into judgement with the antients of his people Peruse Ioel 3.13 to 18. Mich. 4.2 to 8. where Ch●ist in relation to judging all Nations and People is frequently stiled LORD by way of prophecy before his incarnation or resurrection and compare th●se Scriptures with others in the New Testament after his resurrection as 2 Tim. 4.1 I charge thee before God and the LORD Iesus Christ who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdome 2 Thess. 1.7 8 9 10. When the LORD Iesus shall be r●vealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and ●bey not the Gospel of our LORD Iesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruc●ion from the presence o● the LORD and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints c. Rev. 4.8.11 Holy holy holy LORD God almighty which was and is and is to come to wit to Judgement Thou art worthy O LORD to receive glory honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they were and are created Rev. 19.1 2. Salvation and honour and power be unto the LORD our God for true and righteous are his judgme●ts 1 T●ess 4.15 c. We who are alive remain unto the coming of the LORD shall not prevent them which are asl●ep For the LORD himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voyce of the Archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first Then we which are alive and remain shall bee caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the LORD in the air and so shall we ever be with the LORD 2 Thess. 2.1 Now we beseech you brethren by the coming of the LORD Iesus● C●rist and by our ga●hering together unto him Jam. 5.7 8 9. Be patient therefore Brethren unto the coming of the LORD c. For the coming of the LORD draweth nigh Behold the Iudge standeth before the door Heb. 10.30 Vengeance belongeth unto me I will recompence it saith the LORD the LORD shall judge his people Act. 17.31 He hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by that man the LORD fore-mentioned whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance in that he hath r●ised him from the dead All these united to the preceding texts and 1 Cor. 8 6. But to us there is but ONE LORD Iesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him will abundantly evidence that name of Christ above every name in which every knee shall bow and which every tongue shall confesse in the day of Judgement at Christs second coming to be this Name LORD or his Divine Soveraign Power and Dominion not his name Iesus True it is that some Interpreters especially those Fathers who writ against the Arrians assert that

a bowing of subjection of all Creatures to his Soveraignty especially in the day of Judgement as I have already evidenced at large Which I shall further demonstrate by these ensuing Scriptures Rev. 1.5 6 8 18. Jesus Christ the first begoten of the dead the Prince of the Kings of the earth c. to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almightie I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the keyes of Hell and Death Rev. 3.21 To him that overcommeth will I grant to sit with me in my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down in my Fathers Throne Rev. 6.10 And they cryed with a loud voyce how long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our Blood c. And the Kings of the earth and the Great men and the rich men and the chief Capt●ins and the mighty men and every bond-man and free-man hid themselves in the denns c. and said to the Mountains fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb. R●v 11.15 16 17. And there were great voyces i● heaven saying The Kingdoms of the World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever And the 24. Elders which sate before God o● their seats fell down on their faces and worshiped God saying We give the thanks Lord God Almightie which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken unto thee thy great Power a●d hast reigned And the Nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy Servants and Prophets and to the Saints and them that fear thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth Rev. 15.3 4. And they sung the song of Moses and of the Lamb saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighy ju●t and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints c. Who shall not fear thee O ●ord and glorifie thy name for thou onely art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgments are made manifest Rev. 16.7 8 9. And I heard the Angel say Thou art righteous O Lord which art and wast and art to come c. And I heard another under the Altar say Even so Lord God Almighty true and righteous are thy judgements Rev. 18.8 c. Shee shall be burnt with fire for strong is the Lord God that judgeth her Rev. 19.1 2 4 c. After those things I heard a great voyce of more people in heaven saying Allelujah salvation ●nd glory and honour and power ●nto the Lord our God for true and righteous are thy judgements for he hath judged the great Whore And the 24. Elders and the 4. Beast● fell down and worshipped God that sat● on the Throne saying Allelujah c. And I heard as it were the voyce of a great multitude and as the Voice of many waters and mighty thundrings saying Allelujah For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth Let us be glad and rejoyce and give honour to him c. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the Nations and he shall rule them with a rod of Iron ●nd he treadeth the winepresse of the wrath of God and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords c. And I saw the dead small and great stand before GOD and the Books we●e opened c. and they were judged every man according to their works And then it will be mo●t clear That the Names of God Lord Lord of Lords c. not the name Jesus not once mentioned in all these Texts is the name above every name and the bowing subjection of all Angels Men Spirits great and small good and bad before the Throne or Judgement seat of Jesus Christ and his judging of them the bowing of every knee and their confessions of him to be LORD and GOD in the glory of God the Father the very same intended in Phil. 2.9 10 11. Isay 45.23 and Rom. 14 4ly Take notice of these his Hyperbolical expressions which may prove very dangerous if not warily unde●stood and quali●ied with some grains of charity and candor Here is super up●n super Another super to his Name no l●sse then his Pe●son That above all persons not excepti●g the Persons of God the Father and God the holy Ghost And this a●ove all names whatsoever not excepting the Names of God God the Father 〈◊〉 HOLY SPIRIT no more then the other great and glo●ious names of Christ Son of God Lord c. whose Persons and Names too are Co-aequal with the Person and Name of I●sus Therefore to be equally adored bowed to and honoured by all O●thodox Christians whereas these his expressions seconded with constant bowing● only at and to the Name Person of Jesus not of God the F●ther or God the Holy Ghost imply yea make an inaequality in the very Trinity it self and advance the Pe●son Name of Jesus the Sonne above the Person N●me of God the Father and Person Name of God the holy Spirit whose Deity the Eunomians Macedonians Samosetanus Photinus and their followers d●nyed of old and Biddolph with others amongst us of late as well as the Arrians denyed the Deity of Jesus Christ. 5ly His words That God requires this service of the knee and that to his Sonnes name Jesus Ye shall not displease him by it fe●r not c. They that will do no honour he me●●s by this bowing at or to it every time it is recited when time of need comes shall have no comfort by it Have mind on him that is named and do his Name the Hono●r and spare not are such dangerous bold assertion● as never fell from any Protestant Divines mouth or pen before his and that in a Royal Court-Auditory and cannot be justified by any of his Admi●ers nor excused as learned Bishop Morton confessed to me when he had well considered them and Archbishop Abbot too from the censure of Name-worship Will-worship nor distinguished from the Papists worshipping of his Name Cross Body in the Eucharist if compared with his former passages 6ly Observe this other collateral passage of his Not to do it at his Name Nay at the holy Mysteries thems●lves not to do It. Which may have a harsh construction agreeable to the Doctrin and practise of the Chu●ch of Rome Even to bow at kneel to adore the very Body of Christ in the consecrated Host and Elements themselves as the Papists do which he hath left behind him in his Chu●ch as the Bishop writes he

was long b●●ore r●as●nably introduced and Sitting prohibited only by the Authority of the Church in such sort and ●or such reasons as are already mentioned in this Council of Constance may not produce any further Innovations in our Sacraments Administration and Doct●ine too by degrees and engender N●w Schismes ●ont●ntions Disturbances Excommunications Pr●secutio●s Pers●cutions of c●nscientious godly Ministers and L●yick● to the great interruption of our Churches and Kingdomes peace the total frustration of his Majesties most Gracious Declarations and Intentions towards all hi● loving Subjects to their general discontent The prevention wherof out of mere duty loyalty service to his Majesty unfeigned desire of our Churches future Unity Prosperity by just Dispensations Indulgencies to all his Majesties consciencious Loyal Subjects according to his real and royal Intentions in this particular hath made me more copious in this just Apology for Sitting without passing any over-rigid Censure upon Kneeling as utterly unlawfull in the Act of Receiving or on those who practise it in ou● Churches out of piety humility and true Christian devotion Moderata durant Let our Prelates Churches Parliaments moderation therefore in these Particulars of Sit●ing Kneeling and Bowing at the Name of Iesus be known unto all men and exercised towards each other for the Lord i● at hand I shall close up this Discourse with the Evangelical Precept Expostulation and advise of God himself and his Apostle St. Paul to the Church Saints of Rome it self and throughout the World in a like case Ro 14 3 c. Let not him that eateth the Lords Supper kneeling despise him that eateth not kneeling nor him that eateth not sitting o● standing but kneeling judge him that eateth sitting for God hath received him Who art thou that judgest another mans Servant to his own Master he standeth or falleth sitteth or kneeleth He that ●a●eth sitting or standing eateth to the Lord for he giveth God thanks and he that eateth not sitting or standing but kneeling to the Lord he eateth not so and giveth God thanks Why dost thou judge thy Brother or why dost thou set at nought thy Brother who receiveth sitting standing or kneeling We shall al● stand before the Iudgement seat of Christ Let us not therefore judge or censure one another in these indiff●rent Gestures any more but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his Brothers way Let us therefore follow a●ter things that make for P●ace and things whereby we may edifie not crucifie grieve destroy excommunicate or discontent each other Destroy not him with thy meat or thy gesture at it for whom Christ died All things indeed are pur● but it is ill for that man who eateth with offence or to impose any Gesture whereby thy Brother stumbleth or is off●nd●d or made weak Happy i● he that condemneth not himself in that which he alloweth for whatsoever i● not of Faith is Sin to him that doth it But to leave this Collateral Discourse of Kneeling at the Sacrament which some would enforce from this Text and return to Bishop Andrews passages concern●ng Bowing AT and TO the Name of Iesus as a duty of the Text. I shall desire the Readers to take notice of these Mistakes and Errors as I humbly conceive them not onely couched but clea●●y ●xpr●ssed in them His first Error is this That the name Iesus is the name above every name intended in this Text which Fathers and modern Exp●sitors gainsay His Second That the name Iesus is above all names whatsoever yea above the name of God His Third That this name Iesus is one of Gods own names and the chiefest name of God His Fourth That this Text enjoynes men to bow TO not in or at this very name Iesus and to this name only His Fifth That our Saviour hath left this his name behind him now his Person is ascended into Heaven to this very end that we might do reverence and bow unto it His Sixth That the words of the Text are so plain as they are able to convince any mans conscience that they ought to bow to the name of Iesus when rehearsed in the Church His Seventh That there is no Writer of the Antients on this place except Origen but litterally understands it and likes well we should actually perform this duty of bowing to the name of Iesus when pronounced His Eighth That Ambrose Hierome Cyril and Theodoret in their Quotations in his Margent are of this opinion and thus understand this Text. His Ninth That there want not Reasons why we should rather bow to the name of Iesus than to the name of Christ. His Tenth That Christ is not yea cannot be the name of God His Eleventh That God cannot be annoynted His Twelfth That Iesus is the chief name of God and so by consequence that Iesus could not be annoynted for therein consists the force of this Reason His Thirteenth That the name Christ was communicated by God to others but the name Iesus not it being a proper name to our Saviour only His Fourteenth That that which is proper is above that which is holden in common His Fifteenth That Christ is not so good as Iesus because the end is better than the meanes and he was annoynted that he might be a Saviour His Sixteenth That we must bow to the name of Iesus with reference to the sence That is with ●eference to the Person of Iesus as he is a Saviour His Seaventeenth That this bowing is no taken-up worship or humane invention or injunction but a ●uty of the Text directly set down by God himself yea an Act which is of Gods own prescribing His Eighteenth That the Brazen Serpent was not a thing enjoyned nor instituted by God himself as this is His Nineteenth That the Superstition occasioned by this bowing cannot abolish it His Twentyeth That this bowing as it may be superstitiously used so it may be irreligiously neglected too For the two first of these his Mistakes they are directly confuted by sundry Fathers who make the ●ame here given to Christ above every name to be no other but the name God and that in truth and reality not mere appellation as Verse 6. Who being in the form of GOD thought it not robbery TO BE EQUAL WITH GOD compared with Verse 11. That every Tongue should confesse that Iesus CHRIST is LORD to or in the glory of GOD THE FATHER intimate Witnesse likewise their ensuing Authorities Tertullian De Trinitate lib. Tom. 2. p. 261 262. Accepit enim nomen quod est super omne nomen quod ut que non aliud intelligim us esse quàm nomen D●i Nam qu●m Dei sit solius esse super omnia consequens est ut nomen illud sit super omnia quod est ejus qui super omnia est Dei c. vid. Ibid. Athanasius De Incarnatione Christi contra Apollinarium p. 271. C. Et cum dicit Ideo super-exaltavit eum Deus