The second and last part of Reasons for refusall of subscription to the Booke of common prayer vnder the hands of certaine ministers of Deuon. and Cornwall, as they were exhibited by them to the right Reuerend Father in God William Cotton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Exceter. As also an appendix, or compendious briefe of all other exceptions taken by others against the bookes of communion, homilies, and ordination, word for word, as it came to the hands of an honorable personage. VVith an ansvvere to both at seuerall times returned them in publike conference, and in diuerse sermons vpon occasion preached in the cathedrall church of Exceter by Thomas Hutton Bachiler of Diuinitie, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Oxon.

Imposition of handes and prayer are both lincked together with a coniunction copulatiue (And) implying that they both ioynt∣lie concur to obtayne this strength, and neither of them seuer allie.

If this copulatiue (And) were in the same kinde of cause, as it is couched in the course of the same sentence, Reason were to iudge equallie of them both, But in as∣much, as the one is externallie to vs, the other internallie

internallie to God, both effectuallie, but in a diuerse manner the practise of such disputants may be more iustly suspected, then their argument neede greatly be feared. This worde (and) here, is a copulatiue in vse but a disiunctiue in power: the weakest be¦ing put first in the rancke, but with respect to him that followeth. Imposition of hands were of little worth, but for prayer. The method and ordring of which wordes is like that Math 17. By fasting and prayer diuils are cast out:* 1.1 None but knoweth fas∣ting is no part of the spirituall seruice, and worship of God, nor anie cause of it selfe able to dispossesse a diuill, yet ioyned with earnest and heartie yrayer vnto God, wee read what is spo∣ken thereof.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Math. 17.21.