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.

Whither according to the word of God a man hauing been once bap∣tised and communicating 3. times a yeare there be any other sacra∣ments to be receiued?

Wee answer: This question (as commonly all such interroga¦tiues) made thus cunningly, is but a snare set to intangle a reply. For examples sake: Wée read in 1. Corinth. 15. that Christ was seene of the 12. Where as in the first of the Acts there were but eleuen, for Iudas had hung himselfe. Whereupon with a frame of words after the forme of the demaund here prefixed, wée may stile our question thus. Whither according to the word of God Iudas hauing hung himselfe, & therefor but 11. it may be said there were anie other to be reckoned then at that time for a 12. No diffe∣rence at all in the scruple occasioned. For in what termes that is proposed, so may wee tender this, but not without danger and therefore such questions must be cast in a new mould, & be made in some other forme and fashion then this is here. Els wee shall not onely indanger the booke of common prayer, but euen by the like choplogick (at vnawares peraduenture) make worke for Atheists & their reprobate contradictions. Hoping therefore that men desire to be satisfied, and not wrangling at any hand multiplyed, our conclusion is thus. Wee answer. A man hauing beene once baptised and communicating 3. times in a yeare, hath no other sacraments to receiue but the Lord his supper, which is called sacraments because it is one of the sacraments, as also because a man communicateth often, as also because there are many cōmunicants w^t receiue with him, as also because of the se∣uerall elements bread and wine, as also because of the seuerall partes signified by them, as also the sacramentall rites annexed to them. For all which respects though but vnum totale, one intire thing, yet as hath beene saide in the language of 1400. yeares agoe and now since in the communion booke called sacra∣ments in these wordes: He shall also receiue the sacraments, and other rites. And againe. The sacraments of the bodie, blood &c.

Notes

• 1. Cor. 15.5. Act. 1.26.