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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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