A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe].

  • Henry Stubbe
Date:
1671
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Credit: A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Socrates Hift Eccltf. l,6.c.^. M.Fr. Wende- lin Chr. Thco- log-Syficm. Mai. 4 i. c. 14. Council of Trent. /. 1. pag. 52. Gabriel. Alba- fpitiaeus Obfer. ad Optat. 1. I. c.22.de Sacer- dotio Genti- lium# S. Hieron. in vita S. Hila- rionis. • Coinmunio in¬ ter fi deles , in publicis ir.a- xime pietatis exercitijs cjl poftta : atque hoc efl vptatw bonis mionis a el preecipuit coagu- bun. Cafaub. refp. ad Card. Perron. 6 Acensure of thehistory ' have had of Chwrch Communion, which is agreeable hereunto : Toowne any number or affociation of men to be a part of the Church Catho- lique, and yet not to refort to the fame religious offices , amounts not to Church-Communion: finee All Excommunication cuts not off from the body of Chrift, but from outward or exteriour Communion with a vifible Church : thus when Chryfoftome fepatated himfelfe from the followers of Meletius , and of Paulinus, though he did acknowledge both Church to be Orthodox , yet is it faid that He communicated with neither. Msr<* javra 3 Msastjs tv KwwtavImzKzvTYi(\ivjl&' ' bvM $ 'Tctqctfty'ovei <f/ct r Tqnyoftm -fa Ntttfta.v!ftivx Kctj&aTciQtv , dycL^afi'iQaf Twetvvm MthtTiAvav , /uiiTS TL&vh'Cvep QvfKOtvayav , ini t?«V OAK? tvi&uTus turves d'liiyzv. Neither doth it amount to an Eccleftaftical Communion if a man be prefent at the religious Affemblies and offices of another Church , if fo be he do it not upon a religious account, nor devoutly joyne therewith : thus when Elijah was prefent at the Sacrifice and worfhip of Baal3 he did not com¬ municate which thofe Idolaters, 1. Kings 18. 26,27. Thus Lyranus, Cajetanus, and other Cafuifts excufe Haaman for bowing ( upon a ■ Chill account ) in the houfe of Rimmon •, and allow the' cafe of a .Cbriftian Have wich waited on her Miftrejfe to the Sarracen worfhip, and bore up her traine , but did not joyne in the Mahometan Ser¬ vice: thus the Proteftant divines, ( as Sleidan , and the Hi dory of the-Council of Trent inforrae us ) refolved that it was lawfull for the Proteftant Princes to pay a civil attendance on the German Em- perour even at Maffe in the Royall Chappell. In like manner feverall of the ancient Chriftians did undergoe the office of Pagan-Pnefts , exhibiting thofe ftewes , dire&ing thofe Paftimesand Sacrifices which were appointed for the divertifement of the people. Not that they did approve of them , or did joyn in the Idolatrous worfhip religioudy , but in obedience to thofe Lawes, by which the employment was Patrimoniall, & defeended with the e(fates they held *, fo that they were neceffitated thereunto except they would relinquilh their eftdtes. This cuftumecontinuedlong under the Cbriftian Emperours-, & this excufe is made by a Cbriftian, who was inflated in fuch a Priefthood, to S. Hilarioy when he advifed’ him to fell h\s fine horfes, & relieve the poore with the price. llle refpondit, funflionem effe public am , fo hoc non tarn fe velle, quant cogi. Thefe things therefore amount not unto Church-Communion albeit that this laft procedure was interdifted at laft by the Eliberi- tane Council. Can. <2.3. 4. But tis tile joyning religioufty in the fame Church w or ft ip , and particularly in celebrating the Lords Supper together : and this is to be done interchangeably , for otherwife onelv the one ftde can be faid to communicate with the other : not vice versa : Thus when the Papifts did refort to our Churches in the beginning of the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth , andjoyned in the fame Prayers, and’participation of Sacraments with the Church of England, it might juftdy by faid , that they did hold Communion with us but fince the Lavees then in force did prohibit the Proteftants to be prefent at.
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