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.

Chap. 15. There are two Sacraments as generally necessary to sal∣uation. This word generall importeth other & more Sacraments in particular implying the Popish Sacra∣ments and so cleane contrary to the 15. article of Re∣ligion, whereas it is said. There are two Sacraments onely.

IN the addition to the Catechisme these words raise vp some mens quicke appe∣tite; and a maruill it is that their queasie stomack all this while takes not a surfeit with ouercloynig it selfe. But it séemeth they are sharpe set,* 1.1 and as if Domiti∣ans delight were much to their liking, a flye shall not escape them. A méere ca∣uill it is in falsely combining this word (generall) vnto Sa∣craments, implying some else particular. Whereas it is to be

vnderstood generally necessary to saluatiō, noteth it to be eue∣ry mans duety in submitting vnto them, because euery one is ei∣ther an infant or of more yeares. And if both, both generally ne∣cessarie to saluation for both. Beside one might thinke the word (as) should tell them a partition wall is betwixt the Sacraments & generall, giuing thē a reason why two Sacraments receiued & no more. For so this coniunction (as) signifieth both in Scrip∣ture and in this place. In Scripture these witnesses shall serue though more might be produced. I beseech yee as strangers and pilgrims abstaine from fleshly lusts, &c. Where the Apostle drawing an argument from the thing wherof he intreateth vseth a course dehortatorie and exhortatorie. Dehortatorie abstaine from fleshly lusts, exhortatorie and haue your conuersation, &c. From the person (As strangers and pilgrims) that is,* 1.2 because strangers and pilgrims. So Math. 6. Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue which in Luke c. 11. is forgiue, for we forgiue, Little as we are wretches as we are, we doe forgiue: be intrea∣ted therfore O Lord to forgiue vs. For we (glory be to thy name) that we can so doe, euen we forgiue, where (as) signifieth (be∣cause) one put for the other. Thus likewise, There are two Sacraments because generally necessarie to saluation: and if they were not so generally they were not Sacraments. So that an argument might well be taken hence for refusing the other, rather then inferring hereupon more then two. Chemni∣tius his rule is this. To a Sacrament of the Church there is required that I may so speake the generalitie of the com∣maundement, & of the diuine promise comprising all Mi∣nisters, and all the faithfull of all times in the newe Testa∣ment. An vniuersalitie he saith of the commaundement for time and persons, both Ministers by whom, and the faithfull on whom it is conferred. One Simon Goulartius, whom we haue al∣leadged in his notes vpon Cyprian writeth thus. The ceremo∣nies in ordaining of Ministers of the Church we commend so they be rightly and with edification obserued. But Sa∣craments we deny them to be as which (that is) because they obtaine not a vniuersall vse. For neither are all to be ordained, but all are to be baptized and being baptized, when they are in yeares they must come to the Table of the Lord. Doe men ap∣proue

this reasō giuen by others, and will they not take reason at our handes. What is this but like wantons that will haue no bread at any ones hande, but such a one, or such a one they fancy; though it be deliuered them as kindelie, cut from the same loafe that others giue. But because children make orts, and are sicke of the wantons, they haue a rod otherwhiles and the bread taken from thē and all little inough to bring downe their stout stomack glad afterwards to leape at a crust & to prize husks & hogs wash as the vnthrift did, when he was in a strange country: We néed not apply it, they are of vnderstanding, whome wee make an∣swere vnto: God giue them as inward and inlie a feeling of that we know they well vnderstand. This third interpretation wee adde from their mouth, whose presence neare his highnesse person may giue assurance of a truth. The word necessarie hath a twofold signification. One more large, the other more strict. Large as that which is necessarie vpon supposition if it may wel bee, strict without supposition as that if must needes bee what ere come of it. The first wee call generallie necessarie, the second strictly, absolutely, simply necessary. There are two sacramēts as generally necessary in y^t significatiō takē at large meaning no more, because naming no more but two & thesetwo not simply and absolutly necessary as if a christian were damned without them, but as generally necessarie, that is when they may be had according to Christs holy institution. The wordes as generall, as generall might bee, and that of ourpose to giue full content∣ment, but the deuil enuieth the peace of the church and crosseth otherwhiles our best thoughts and purposes, when wee most in∣tend them for other mens satisfaction.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ne musea qui∣dem.
• * 1.2

  Math. 6.12. Luc. 11.4. Ve aliquid sit sacramentum ecclesia, requi∣ritur (vt sic lo∣quar) vniuersa litas mādats & promissionis at∣uina complectēs ōnesministros & omnesfideles omnium tempo∣rum in noue te∣stamento. Chemnit. de cō∣firmat. p. 62. Cerimonias in ordinatione mi nistrorum eccle siae, modo ritè et cum edificatio∣ne obseruatas laudamus, vt quae vntuersalē vsum non obti∣nent. Nec enim ownes, &c. Goulart. in epist. 63. ad Ca cilian.