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A COPY OF The Proceedings of ſome worthy and learned Divines, appointed by the Lords to meet at the Biſhop of LINCOLNS in WESTMINSTER.
Touching Innovations in the Doctrine and Diſcipline of the Church of England.
Together with conſiderations upon the Common Prayer booke.
Arch Biſhop of Armach.
Printed at London. 1641.
1.
QVaere, Whether in the twentieth article theſe words are not inſerted, Habet Eccleſia authoritatem in controverſiis fidei.
2. It appeares by Stetfords and the approbation of the Licencers that ſome do teach and preach, that good works are concauſes with faith in the act of Juſtification. Doctor Dove alſo hath given ſcandall in that point.
3. Some have preached that works of penance are ſatisfactory be
4. Some have preached, that private Confeſſion by particular enuneceſſitate medii; both thoſe errours have beene queſtioned at the Conſiſtory at Cambridge.
5. Some have maintained, that the abſolution, which the Prieſt proDeclaratory.
6. Some have publiſhed, that there is a proper Sacrifice in the Lords Supper, to exhibit Chriſts death in the Poſtfact, as there was a ſacrifice to prefigure in the old Law, in the Antefact, and therefore that we have a true Altar, and therfore not only metaphorically ſo called, ſo Doctor Heylin and others in the laſt Summers Convocation, where alſo ſome defended, that the Oblation of the Elements might hold the nature of the true ſacrifice, others the conſumption of the Elements.
7. Some have introduced prayer for the dead, as M. Browne in his prinCambridge and diſputed, that preces pro defunctis non ſupponunt purgatorium.
8. Divers have oppugned certitude of ſalvation.
9. Some have maintained the lawfulneſſe of monaſticall vowes.
10. Some have maintained that the Lords day is kept meerely by eccleſiaſticall conſtitution, and that the day is changeable.
11. Some have taught as new and dangerous Doctrine, that the ſubSybthorp and D. Manwaring Biſhop of S. Davids, in their printed ſermons, whom many have followed of late yeeres.
12. Some have put ſcorns upon the two books of Homilies, calling them either popular diſcourſes, or a doctrine uſefull for thoſe times wherein they were ſet forth.
13. Some have defended the whole groſſe ſubſtance of Arminianiſme, that Electio eſt ex fide praeviſâ, That the act of converſion depends upon the concurrence of mans free will, That the juſtified man may fall finally and totally from grace.
Some have defended univerſall grace as imparted as much to ReElect, and have proceeded uſque ad ſalutem Ethnicorum, which the Church of England bath anathamatized.
15. Some have abſolutely denyed originall ſin, and ſo evacuated the Croſſe of Chriſt, as in a diſputation at Oxer.
16. Some have given exceſſive cauſe of ſcandall to the Church as beSocinianiſme.
17. Some have defended that concupiſcence is no ſin either in the ha
18. Some have broacht out of Socinus a moſt uncomfortable and deſperate doctrine, that late repentance, that is, upon the laſt bed of ſickis unfruitfull, at leaſt to reconcile the penitent to God.
1. THe reconciliation of Sancta Clara to knit the Romiſh and Proteſtant in one, Memorandum that he be cauſed to produce Biſh. Watſons book of the like reconciliation which he ſpeaks of.
2. A booke called Brevis Diſquiſitio printed (as it is thought) in London, and vulgarly to be had, which impugneth the doctrine of the holy Trinity, and the verity of Chriſts body (which he tooke of the bleſſed virgin) in Heaven, and the verity of our reſurrection.
3. A book called Timotheus philalethes de pace Eccleſia, which holds that every religion will ſave a man if he hold the Covenant.
1. THe turning of the holy Table Altarwiſe, and moſt commonly calling it an Altar.
2. Bowing towards it, or towards the Eaſt, many times, with three congees; but unuſuall in every motion, acceſſe, or receſſe in the Church.
3. Advancing Candleſtickes in many Churches upon the Altar ſo called.
4. In making Canopies over the Altar ſo called, with traverſes and curtaines on each ſide and before it.
5. In compelling all Communicants to come up before the railes, and there to receive.
6. In advancing Crucifices and Images upon the parafront or Altarcloth ſo called.
7. In reading ſome part of Morning prayer at the holy Table, when there is no Communion celebrated.
8. By the Miniſters turning his backe to the Weſt, and his face to the Eaſt when he pronounceth the Creed, or reads Prayers.
9. By reading the Letany in the midſt of the body of the Church in many Parochiall Churches.
10. By pretending for their Innovations the injunctions and adverElizabeth, which are not in force, but by way of commentary and impoſition, and by putting to the Liturgy printed ſecundo, tertio Edwardi ſexti, which the Parliament hath reformed and layd aſide.
11. By offering of Bread and Wine by the hand of the Church
12. By having a Credentia, or ſide-table, beſides the Lords Table, for divers uſes in the Lords Supper.
13. By introducing an Offertory before the Communion, diſtant from the giving of Almes to the poore.
14. By prohibiting the Miniſters to expound the Catechiſme at large to their Pariſhioners.
15. By ſuppreſſing the Lectures partly on Sundaies in the afternoon, partly on week daies, performed as well by combination, as ſome one man.
16. By proibiting a direct prayer before Sermon, and bidding of prayer.
17. By ſinging the Te Deum in proſe after a Cathedrall Church way, in divers Parochiall Churches, where the people have no skill in ſuch Muſique.
18. By introducing Latine Service in the Communion of late in Oxford, and into ſome Colledges in Cambridge, at Morning and Eve
19. By ſtanding up at the Hymbes of the Church, and alwaies at Gloria Patri.
20. By carrying children from the baptiſme to the Altar ſo called, there to offer them up to God.
21. By taking downe Galleries in Churches, or reſtraining the building of ſuch Galleries where the Pariſhes are very populous.
1. THat in all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches two Sermons be preached every Sunday by the Deane and Prebendaries, or by their procurement, and likewiſe every Holiday, and one Lecture at the leaſt to be preached on working daies every weeke, all the yeere long.
2. That the Muſique uſed in Gods holy Service in Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches be framed with leſſe curioſity, that it may be more edifying and more intelligible & that no Hymnes or Anthems be uſed where Ditties are framed by private men, but ſuch as are contained in the ſacred Canonicall Scriptures, or in our Liturgy of prayers, or have publique allowance.
3. That the Reading-deske be placed in the Church where divine Service may beſt be heard of all the people.
1. WHether the names of ſome departed Saints and others ſhould not be quite expugned the Calendar.
2. Whether the reading of Pſalmes, ſentences of Scripture concurHymnes, Epiſtles, and Goſpels, ſhould not be ſet out in the new tranſlation.
3. Whether the Rubrique ſhould not be mended, where all VeſtEd. 6.
4. Whether Leſſons of Canonicall Scripture ſhould be put into the Calendar in ſtead of Apocrypha.
5. That the Doxologie ſhould be alwaies printed at the end of the Lords prayer, and be alwaies ſaid by the Miniſter.
6. Whether the Rubrique ſhould not be mended, where it is (that the Leſſons ſhould be ſung in a plaine tune) why not (read with a di
7. Whether Gloria Patri ſhould be repeated at the end of every Pſalme.
8. Whether according to that end of the Preface before the Comand why not only on wedneſday, and friday morning, and in the afternoon on Saturdaies, with holiday eves.
9. Whether the Hymnes, Benedicite omnia opera, &c. may not be left out.
10. In the prayer for the Clergy, that phraſe perhaps to be altered, [which only worketh great marvels.]
11. In the Rubrique for the adminiſtration of the Lords Supper whether this alteration to be made, that ſuch as intend to communi
12. The next Rubrique to be cleared, how farre a Miniſter may re
13. Whether the Rubrique is not to be mended, where the Church-wardens are ſtraightly appointed to gather the almes for the poore before the Communion begin, for by experience it is proved to be done better when the people depart.
14. VVhether the Rubrique is not to be mended, concerning the party that is to make his generall confeſſion upon his knees before the Communion, that it ſhould be ſaid only by the Miniſter, and then at every clauſe repeated to the people.
15. Theſe words in the forme of the Conſecration, This is my body, this is my blood of the New Teſtament, not to be printed hereafter in great Letters.
16. VVhether it will not be fit to inſert a Rubrique touching knee
17. VVhether Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches ſhall be ſtraitly bound to celebrate the holy Communion every Sunday at the leaſt, and might not it rather be added once in a moneth.
18. In the laſt Rubrique touching the Communion, is it not fit that the Printer make a full point, and begin with a new great letter at theſe words. And every Pariſhioner ſhall alſo receive the Sacraments.
19 VVhether in the firſt prayer at the baptiſme, theſe words, Didſt ſanctifie the flood Iordan, and all other waters, ſhould not be thus changed, Didſt ſanctifie the Element of water.
20. VVhether it be not fit to have ſome diſcreet Rubrique made to take away all ſcandall from ſignifying the ſigne of the Croſſe upon the infants after baptiſme, or if it ſhall ſeem more expedient, to be quite diſuſed, whether this reaſon ſhould be publiſhed, that in ancient Liturno Croſſe was conſigned upon the partie, but where Oyle alſo was uſed, and therefore Oyle being now omitted, ſo may alſo that which was concomitant with it, the ſigne of the Croſſe.
21. In private baptiſme, the rubrique mentions that which muſt
that the Miniſter may dip the child in water being at the point of death.
22. VVhether in the laſt rubrique of confirmation thoſe words be to be left out [and be undoubtedly ſaved.]
23. VVhether the Catechiſme may not receive a little more en
14. VVhether the times prohibited for marriage are quite to be taken away.
25. VVhether none hereafter ſhall have licences to marry, nor be asked their banes of Matrimony, that ſhal not bring with them a Cerinſtructed in their Catechiſme.
26. VVhether theſe words in Matrimony [with my bodie I thee worſhip] ſhall not be thus altered, I give thee power over my bodie.
27. VVhether the laſt rubrique of marriage ſhould not be mended, that new married perſons ſhould receive the Communion the ſame day of their marriage, may it not well be or upon the next Sunday fol
28. In the abſolution of the ſicke, were it not plaine to ſay, I pronounce thee abſolved.
29. The Pſalme of thankeſgiving of women after Child-birth, were it not fit to be compoſed out of proper Verſicles taken from divers Pſalmes.
30 May not the Prieſt rather read the Commination in the Deske, then go up to the pulpit.
31. The rubrique in the Commination leaves it doubtfull whether the Letanie may not be read in divers places in the Church.
32. In the order of the buriall of all perſons, 'tis ſaid, We commit his bodie to the ground, in ſure and certaine hope of reſurrection to eternall life. VVhy not thus knowing aſſuredlie, that the dead ſhall riſe againe.
33 In the Collect next unto the Collect againſt the peſtilence, the clauſe perhaps to be mended, For the honour of Ieſus Chriſts ſake.
34. In the Letany inſtead of for nication and all other deadlie ſin, would it not ſatisfie thus? from fornication and all other grievous ſins.
35. It is very fit that the imperfections of the meeter of the ſinging Pſalmes ſhould be mended, and then lawfull authority added unto them, to have them publiquely ſung before and after Sermons, and ſometimes inſtead of the Hymns of morning and evening prayer.