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.

It is directly contrarie to the 25. article of Religion, which saith there are but two. The other fiue falsly so called.

The article hath no such words (fiue falsely so called) but thus commonly so called after which manner so they are, because the

word Sacrament is more generally vsed but to speake strictlie 〈◊〉〈◊〉 what manner Baptisme & the Lord his supper are called Sacra∣ments, the booke doth not so take marriage. For in the 2. tome of homilies speaking of matrimony there is not somuch as a sillable that soundeth to this purpose, where was both time and place to giue it the name of a sacrament if there had been any such mean∣ing. But their opposing the book of homilies to the 25. article is as if a man would by their example knowing they allow but 2. sacraments make them contrarie to themselues who call imposi∣tion of hands as it were a sacrament or set M. Caluin against himselfe because in his institutions he alloweth but two sacra∣ments baptisme and the Lord his supper as we doe,* 1.1 and yet willingly accepteth of the sunction of the ministry to haue that name, yet reckoneth it not as a third with baptisme & the Lords supper, bicause it is neither ordinary nor common with the faith∣full, but a special rite for a certaine function. To take aduantage against that learned writer were very iniurious, and can it be ho∣nest and godlie dealing to intreat our church thus, since in both we know their minde alike. For though beside two sacraments M. Caluin mentioneth the office of the ministrie, and our homilie maketh matrimony one, taking the word at large, yet as general¦ly necessary to all the faithfull there are two sacraments onelie. which are expresse words, which our Catechisme vseth, as before (cap. 15) hath alreadie beene handled.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Manuum signū hoc & quasi sa¦cramentū vsur∣parunt eccles. discip fol. 25. Quantum ad verum presbyte ri•• 0536 0 munus liben ter eoloco habeo Institut. lib. 4. c. 19 sect. 28. Quod 3. in nu∣mero non posui, eo factum est quod non ordi∣narium nec cō∣mune, sed ad cer tam fūctionem specialis ritus Ibid.